The Wedding Dance is now The Divorce Dance

The You tube phenomenon Wedding Dance, that was copied on The Office for Jim and Pam's wedding, has now been transformed into the Divorce Dance. The couple is headed to divorce court already?!? Loves it.

Here is the Jim and Pam version.

True Blood

There is nothing hotter right now than vampires. I am not completely sure of the appeal, but I gave it a try. I have been catching up on Season 1 of True Blood with Netflix. We have HBO, so I am looking forward to watching Season 2 OnDemand.

So far, I am really liking the show. I like how they portray the vampires as an oppressed race of people who are just trying to live their lives, but are being discriminated against. At the same time, they do go around killing people, so I understand people's apprehension toward them. I have always loved Anna Paquin, she is one of my favorite actors. They have VERY attractive male characters in the show. AND, it is a "bit" provocative, but its HBO. If they weren't going to push the envelope it might as well be on TBS.

I am absolutely obsessed with New Orleans. I spent Thanksgiving there the year before Katrina hit and absolutely fell in love with the history of that amazing city. But it wasn't until Benjamin Button that I became completely obsessed with the history of New Orleans. I saw the movie for the first time this summer and bought 4 books on the history of Blacks in New Orleans immediately after. It was one of the only cities in America pre-Civil War, that Blacks could be truly successful. They didn't live completely "normal" lives, of course. But there are many Black families that were business owners, politicians, were accepted into society and that interested me greatly.

I do have one small complaint about the show though, the accents. Well, being from Texas, I am very familiar with the different types of southern accents. Anyone from the south knows that the different accents can be very similar, but you can ALWAYS tell someone from Lousiana, it could never be mistaken for something else. They have a deeper, longer drawl to their speech. It is definitely borderline "not english". They don't even say New Orleans, they say "Nawlins". But the characters on the show appear to have just done what they think a southern accent should sound like. I think they should do a little more work on that and then I will be fully roped in.

Plus, as I have stated before. HELLO! Sookie Stackhouse is the greatest name in the history of television.

Kate is Enough

She is so funny! This is the Jimmy Kimmel skit Kathy Griffin was doing dressed as Kate Gosselin poolside. George Takei is playing Jon "Tool of the Year" Gosselin.

I am about halfway through her book now and it gets deep. It is not all fun and games, no ones life ever is. She is so much more real to me now. Of course, I am someone who thinks I know people I see on TV, it is a sickness I know. I just love her even more. I like strong women who really fight long and hard for what they want and deserve. I doubt her family will be too happy about her airing their dirty laundry, but I think she does it in a respectful way. They know how she is. Plus, they went through things just like everyone does. She had a brother who had a serious addiction problem and an "alleged" pedophile. This was very hurtful to their family, but it seems that they all made it through okay.

Her childhood stories are the best though. She talks about the time her and her brother were taking horse riding lessons and the instructor thought she was a boy. She cried, "but I'm a girl, I'm a girl" the entire lesson. I was laughing so hard, I was crying and literally had to put the book down to get it together. She is just so freakin hilarious. I am really excited to finish reading.

Here is the full interview with Jimmy Kimmel. I just can't get enough of her.

Flash Mob Deep in Chi-town

Watching the Oprah premiere on my DVR now. And they did the coolest "flash mob" performance on Michigan Avenue in Chicago with the Black Eye Peas and 20,000 PEOPLE. I love these things. One random person starts dancing and then slowly a few more and eventually everyone in the crowd busts out with this intricate choreography. Just one more reason why I LOVE Chicago.


My favorite flash mob was the one in the train station. A few people start dancing in the middle of the huge and crowded station and people form a circle around the dancers and are looking at them like they are crazy. BUT, the kicker is, 90% of the people in the crowd also start dancing, there were very few people that weren't in on it. I love it.

Also, Jennifer Hudson performed and she looked great for someone who just had a baby. I am so happy for her and her hubby (Punk from I Love New York, he was my fav, but WAY too good for nasty NY).

Kathy Griffin--Hilarious!

 

There are no words for how much I love Kathy Griffin. Kathy dressed like Kate Gosselin is hilarious. (Team Kate, for the record) I have been to see her in concert twice, even dragging along my boyfriend once, which he loved (but won't admit). My "manly-man" boyfriend is a huge fan of inappropriate jokes, so she was actually a great fit for him. She will say anything for a laugh. I love the celeb stuff, I am a celeb gossip crazed woman and her stories are the best. I have an aunt in the movie industry, her movies are pretty well-known and her ex-husband is a very popular director of which she is the executive producer of all his movies. All throughout my childhood, every time she came over, I would hit her with a billion questions about the latest actors she was working with. I wanted all the juice, I can't get enough. 

Now, she has an autobiography, Official Book Club Selection. I am headed to Barnes and Noble for lunch today to grab it. She is all about the publicity, so I am stoked to see all of the coverage she is getting. I remember the episode of her reality show when she met with the publishing executives and they talked about all the shows she wouldn't be able to get on, like the Today show. Of course, most of the shows she should do publicity on she is banned from, but the best they could do with her D-List status is get her on the 4th hour of the Today Show with Kathy Lee and Hoda, but that was the best they could do. Kind of ironic because she talks about how she is mistaken for Kathy Lee all the time, which is why she is D-List.

So You Think You Can Dance

I am so happy that they are bringing 'So You Think You Can Dance' back for a Fall Season. I hate waiting a whole year for it. It is worse than waiting for Fox to bring back '24' every January. I love this past season's Top 12, they were all amazing. I wish Brandon would have won, but I love them all. This show really represents a true art, so much better than 'American Idol', which I stopped watching years ago. I am a little embarrassed, but I actually voted a few times this season for my fav SYTYCD'er.

Here they are on Ellen, so awesome.