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Three More Weeks Of Squee

Yeah. We're pretty much in a constant state of OMG!!SQUEE!1! around here

And we're just, like, giving daily thanks to the awesome, spectacular, and incredibly generous people at TypePad/Six Apart, Federated Media, bTrendie and Dove and Yahoo! Canada. Because without them, we wouldn't be able to throw this awesometastic party for ourselves and 500 of our closest friends.

The guest list is now (we know, we know) closed, as we're at maximum capacity. No word on whether anyone is scalping, but we fully expect that if scalping does occur, it will be at a minimum price of three sparklecorn tail braids and a bucket of glitter. So.

Happy 4th, Everybody!

The MamaPop Roundtable is on hiatus this week due to the holiday, so we leave you with the following, and wish each of you a happy 4th of July weekend.

Neil Patrick Harris Is Going To Host the Emmys

Remember the days when Neil Patrick Harris existed only as an outlet for our mockery? The Doogie Howser days?  Those were simpler, better times, when the Coke was New and a mortgage was just a mortgage, not a collateralized debt obligation.  But then the world went to hell, and there was no one to make us laugh - except for Neil Patrick Harris, MamaPop's Official Gay Boyfriend.

The Last Video Footage of Michael Jackson

All the rumors of the past week have led us to believe that Michael Jackson was little more than a bald, emaciated zombie before his death, unable to dance, sing, or, sadly, moonwalk.

Now footage of Jackson's last rehearsal, taken hours before his death, right before he was to kick off his 50-date tour, has made it to the Internet to dispel the rumors. What you see is clearly an older, leaner Jackson, but he still has his moves. Granted, I don't expect him to have the same physical versatility as he did in his twenties; but he's obviously healthy. Lou Ferrigno, yes, THE HULK, who personally trained him for the tour, stated that Jackson was as fit as fit could be.

Asteroids: The Movie Sounds GREAT!

Universal Pictures has announced that they have secured the rights to make a movie out of the video game Asteroids, and don't even look at me like that. No, I'm not kidding. You know...Asteroids. The little triangle flies around and shoots the white outline rocks until they break into smaller white outlines? No...No...it's going to be awesome. Because sometimes you can use "boost" and you get going really fast and shooting in circles and woo hoo! That was a great arcade game. In 1980*, the shit rocked. So of course they are making it into a movie. Because the raping of my childhood will never end. Ever. 

Public Service Announcement: Canadian Pop Music Can Kill You

I'm on a road trip across Canada this week, and although I generally ignore (with a few notable exceptions) Canadian music - I find Barenaked Ladies banal, The Tragically Hip boring, and Nickelback a cruel joke - it's kind of hard to avoid thinking about it when you keep passing road signs that say disturbing things like TOUR THE ANNE MURRAY MUSEUM.  That, and the fact that one is morally obliged, as a Canadian on a road trip, to hum Tom Cochrane's Life Is A Highway at least twice a day, makes it a little difficult to pretend that there's no such thing as Canadian pop music and that it hasn't, in some deep and important way, corrupted your soul.

So I decided that you had to be corrupted with me:

Friday Eye Candy: Whoorl Edition

ED NOTE: You read her pop culture confessions yesterday; today, share her love of of hirsute hotties. Or snicker at it. Whichever. But if you're the type to snicker at Jeffrey Dean Morgan, we probably want little to do with you, so.

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Hello, I'm Sarah from Whoorl and Hair Thursday. I have a serious thing for men with beards.

Maybe it's one of those grass-is-greener situations, considering my husband has absolutely no interest in growing one, but MAN OH MAN I love a beard. Now, like everything else, I do believe in moderation. If there's a remote possibility that a living organism could be procreating in those tufts of man hair, I'm out. See below:



Yep. Not doing it for me at all.

However, you might need to physically restrain me around the next 5 gentlemen.

DEA Joins Michael Jackson Death Investigation As His Will Is Revealed And Custody Battle Ensues

The Federal Government has joined the investigation into Michael Jackson's death, at the LAPD's request. Evidence now has surfaced that Michael was using painkillers, sedatives and antidepressants.  

"In this business, the pressures and things that you go through, you never know what one turns to," Jermaine Jackson, Michael's brother, said. 

Are You Ready For Grey's Anatomy...In Space?

ABC has acquired the rights to Gravity, a science fiction show from the U.K. about eight astronauts who undertake a six-year mission. But the producers want you to know, LADIES, that you shouldn't be scared of those words like "science fiction" and "astronauts" and especially "science."

This is "vagina-friendly" science fiction, apparently.

Can We Please Have Some New Celebrities?

*yawn*

 Oh, hi guys. Sorry I'm so sleepy, but I have been reading and researching celebrity gossip to bring you NEW and EXCITING gossip tidbits with snarky commentary about all the celebrities' trainwreckiness. But you know what? I'm pooped out on these people on all these magazines and websites I've been poring over. Exhausted. It seems it's all the same shit about the same 10-15 people. Jacko, obvs, is dominating the media so much that I'm pretty sure TMZ.com would rename themselves TMJ.com if that didn't stand for lockjaw. But beyond a MJ's sudden death catapulting him back into celeb news, it's all the same stuff in the land of gossip: Jon and Kate, Speidi, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Brad and Angelina, some band called the Jonas Brothers? (I dunno, I don't watch Nickelodeon or whatever.) I grow weary of these people and their lives.

I think we need some new celebrities to talk about already, don't you? I have some suggestions after the jump.

Kate Moss and a Jonas Brother Get Engaged

I woke up this morning and everyone got engaged. Well, not everyone, just Kate Moss and one of the Jonas Brothers.

No, silly, not to each other. Kate Moss is almost old enough to be the Jonas Brothers' mom. In fact she was 18 when Nick was born, so there is that.

Oh, you wanted to know who they are going to marry?

What I'm watching on my summer vacation

Man, thank god I get to write here. Not to be an ass kisser, but as I was perusing the news this morning there's all this DREAD and DOOM and EVERYONE'S OUT OF A JOB being reported, and I get to disregard all that completely and write about my summer television obsessions. Pretty awesome.

Anyway, so it's summer, and most of our favorite shows are in hiatus. All we know of them, if we're lucky, are the random spoilers that pop up online from time to time. BUT, just because "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Office" are off air until September, doesn't mean you have to give up lounging on your couch completely. Let me share the TV gems I've recently stumbled upon, the ones that are making this summer surprisingly bearable!

Hollywood's Top Earning Actresses, WTF Edition

OK, so I like to think I'm a bit of a movie buff.  But, it's been pointed out to me once or twice that I'm not a movie buff in the sense that I saw that obscure 1985 straight-to-video movie about the aliens who posed as gas station attendants, but rather I've seen Titanic 27 times and can tell you exactly what Kate Winslet was wearing when Leonardo DiCaprio sketched that one-legged prostitute (yellow and white dress).  So, I guess you can say I'm a discerning movie buff and like to watch the same ones over and over.  Sort of like a toddler now that I think about it.

ANYWAY.  All this to say, I was surprised over who topped the Forbes Top 15 Top-Earning Actresses List.  (I dare you to use "top" more in a sentence.)  I realize that this is just a ranking of how much money they made in 2008, not the quality of their acting, but STILL.  How is it possible that this person is the #1 top earning actress?

Cristiano Ronaldo Flips Out at Fan

Tanorexic soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was recently linked to Paris Hilton, is defending himself against a fan, 17-year-old Sara Pardal, whose car window he kicked out when he discovered she was videotaping him. He alleges that the girl was accompanied by a member of the paparazzi.

Pardal stationed herself outside of his Lisbon apartment where, Ronaldo insists, she was "standing for days on end in front of my house, eating yogurt and waiting for anything newsworthy to happen."

She sounds like a real TREAT.