Imagine...

Around $1.2 million in illegal drugs was seized over the weekend as 75,000 fans descended on Hampton, VA for the reunion of Phish.Over
$68,000 in cash was also seized and 194 people arrested at the event, which saw Phish perform three nights in a row after almost five years away from the live circuit.

Man,

this shit is FUCKED UP.

Nine years old. NINE. I played with damn Barbies till I was 13. And they excommunicate her mom. And the damn doctors.

Not her alleged rapist.

"More serious" than raping a 9 year-old.

This? THIS IS WHY I NO LONGER ATTEND REGULARLY ATTEND CHURCH.

NINE. YEARS. OLD.

They'll probably canonize that freaking bishop.

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church's Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had been carrying had a right to live.

"It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated," he said.

Re, who also heads the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, added: "Life must always be protected, the attack on the Brazilian church is unjustified."

The row was triggered by the termination on Wednesday of twin foetuses carried by a nine-year-old allegedly raped by her stepfather in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term.

"God's law is above any human law. So when a human law ... is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value," Cardoso had said.

He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious".

Battista Re agreed, saying: "Excommunication for those who carried out the abortion is just" as a pregnancy termination always meant ending an innocent life.

The case has sparked fierce debate in Brazil, where abortion is illegal except in cases of rape or if the woman's health is in danger.

On Friday, President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva hit out at Sobrinho's decision, saying: "As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop of the Catholic church has such a conservative attitude."

"The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old," he said, adding that "in this case, the medical profession was more right than the church."

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Oh, BOYS

Let's stick to oneword album titles next time, please.

*shakes head*

Kasabian's new album is called 'West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum'.The follow up to 'Empire' (2007) was recorded in San Francisco last year.Although no tracklisting for the album has been released yet, HMV.co.uk is listing 'West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum' as being released on June 8.

Random ten

1. Be My Baby- The Ronettes
2. La Tristessa Durera (Scream To a Sigh)- Manic Street Preachers
3. Everything's Coming Up Roses- Ethel Merman
4. I Wish- BabyShambles
5. Tell Me A Lie- The Fratellis
6. Cool For Cats- Squeeze
7. First Love- Adele
8. Love Machine- Girls Aloud
9. Made Of Stone- The Stone Roses
10. Motorcycle Emptiness- Manic Street Preachers

Bonus-
11. I Just Called To Say I Love You- Stevie Wonder (Oh, GOD)
12. What Katy Did Next- BabyShambles

Fierce Bitches

Sarah, Florence Welch, Little Boots and Nicola at the NME's.

Holy moly, Flo is an Amazon and how tiny is Little Boots? Because the GA contingent has on their big girl heels....

Awwww

Petey and Carlito at the NME awards.

Hmmmm

Veddddddy interesting....

Rapper Snoop Dogg surprised fans and reporters alike this weekend by revealing he has joined the Nation of Islam. Speaking at the religious group's Saviours' Day convention in Chicago, the 37-year-old praised the group's supreme minister and national representative Louis Farrakhan. It is reported by the Associated Press that he also made a donation to the group of $1,000.

OhPleaseOhPleaseOhPlease

As Girls Aloud get their breaths back after scooping a much-deserved Brit Award, a mole in the girls’ camp tells me that American domination is next on their “to do” list.

After signing a three-album deal with record label Fascination - which will land the girls a pay rise - record company bosses are priming Cheryl Cole, 25, Nadine Coyle, 23, and co for a stateside assault.

“Cheryl is opening lots of doors for us and The Promise is doing really well in US nightclubs,” my source told me, adding that it’s now down to Cheryl to persuade the rest of the girls that 2010 is the year for the band’s global domination.

Randoms

from the NME awards...

Nic and Sar look Darlin'

And sadly, though Petey (without his usual Catholic bling) won Best Solo Artist, he

didn't bring any of his kitties along. Sad. that.

This made me giggle-

...Oasis, who won best British band. The group's Noel Gallagher triumphed in the best blog category, but was pipped in the hero of the year section by US President Barack Obama.

Random ten

1. Alfie- Lily Allen
2. You Know My Name- Chris Cornell
3. Sufragette City- David Bowie
4. Hometown Glory- Adele
5. Time For Heroes- The Libertines
6. F*ck You- Lily Allen
7. Lost Art Of Murder- BabyShambles
8. All You Need Is Love- The Beatles
9. Hot Fun In the Summertime- Sly & the Family Stone
10. Jack Killed Mom- Jenny Lewis

Bonus-
11. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?- The Clash
12. Strict Machine- Goldfrapp

Cue the sound

of a million fangirls squeeing in 3...2...1....

If you want the really random gossip though, just ask The Mighty Boosh comedian Noel Fielding.

After beating the likes of Gavin and Stacey to Best TV, he explained his experiences over dinner.

"I'm sitting next to Brandon from The Killers so that's quite fun," he said.

"We keep making silly remarks like schoolboys, like we're 13 and laughing. And Pete Doherty just bit my ear really hard for a photo.

We don't know each other that well and we had to be intertwined, and it all got a bit steamy and he bit my ear - Mike Tyson style! Insane."

One of my favorites

from the Oscars- Freida Pinto in John Galliano.

Also, how cute is this?

“I am very clumsy,” confessed Pinto, a 24-year-old who had never made a film before. “Angelina Jolie and Kate Winslet have been looking out for me, telling me to relax, but I am not sure whether I can breathe, wave and walk at the same time without falling over.”

Hmmm

Many years ago, when I was but a naive Cygirl, I dated a guy who I thought was Prince Charming and would whisk me off to his castle in his vintage Chevy truck where I would bear his children and loll about being pampered constantly.

I found out after two years that he was more like the things that came out of the Hellmouth that Buffy had to keep stabbing through the heart with a wooden stake.

In short, he was a lying sackashit, dumber than a sack of hair ratbastard.

My point?

He keeps requesting me as a friend on Facebook. I keep ignoring his requests, but he keeps a-asking.

In his profile picture, he's doing the Shocker hand gesture. Seriously. He's 34 fucking years old. Douchebag.

You know, it WAS a long time ago, and frankly, I'm over it. My friends, however, are not. When I forwarded the initial request to my girls... woooweeee. My delicate ears have never heard such language. Stace said-

"OH MY GOD. I have no words. Wait, I have one. FUCKER."

And I'm pretty sure a blue cloud is still hanging over Casey's condo in Chicago.

I'd approve his request for the LOLZ, but I apparently don't live too far from him, and I wouldn't be too hard to find. And I have no, nada, nyet desire to have him show up on my stoop, prostrating himself at the cute-shoe-clad feet of The One Who Got Away Because He Was A Jackass.

Oh, WELL-DONE

Co-headlining a gig with Etta "freaking" James? BABY GIRL!

Adele has announced the dates of a US tour, which kicks off in March.The singer, who won two Grammy Awards earlier this month including best new artist, will kick off the jaunt in San Diego on March 9.

She'll play dates in Arizona, Austin, Houston and Cleveland, making a special stop in New York on May 5 where she'll celebrate her 21st birthday with a headlining show at Roseland Ballroom.

She's also set to co-headline a show at the Hollywood Bowl with her "idol", Etta James, on June 28.

Typical

British understatement in regards to this picture from the Brit Awards-

Girls Aloud were very pleased to win the award for Best Single

You don't say.

"Can I just say - it's about time!" screamed Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding, before adding: "I think I just wet myself."

I love you, Sarah.

Random ten

1. Valerie- Mark Ronson and Kyle Falconer (live at the BBC Electric Proms)
2. ...Hit Me Baby One More Time- Fountains Of Wayne
3. Don't Let Me Down- Stereophonics
4. Things- Robbie Williams and Jane Horrocks
5. It Won't Be Long- Evan Rachel Wood
6. Going Down- The Stone Roses
7. Kiwi- Maroon 5
8. Summertime- Sterephonics
9. Harder To Breathe- Maroon 5
10. Don't Let It Get You Down- Spoon

Bonus-
11. Trouble Sleeping- Corinne Bailey Rae
12. Something- The Beatles

Okay, 6 and 7 back to back made me absolutely piss myself laughing.

Oh Lord

Various Valentine's Day happenings

1. A local loudmouth (has a good heart, just is real obnoxious) called the shop for a dozen roses to be sent to his (equally loud, yet good-hearted) wife. Well done. But...

He wanted 11 red roses and one blue.

Guys, don't make us do that to a perfectly innocent white rose. They scream when we pull out the floral paint. Seriously.

But the card, THE CARD, was the kicker. He wanted it to read-

"I love your sexy ass."

I am not joking. That was the actual message. Now every time I seem them, I'll be thinking that he's fixated on his wife's arse. Which is admirable after 20+ years of marriage but dude, come on... making someone else type that? Man...

Of course, major laughs were had later when my girl, Trace, asked what the blue rose meant. I informed her that "In the language of flowers, a blue rose means you have a sexy ass." With a completely straight face.

She fell for it for a bit.

2. Goofy looking guy, major Howdy Doody resemblance, comes into the shop and orders a decently sized bouquet (50 smackeroos) to be delivered to whom we assumed to be his girlfriend. He opted to fill out the card himself, and we left him alone to do so.

No lie, it took him 45 minutes to fill out the 2x3 inch card.

So of course we were WILD to know what the card said. And it may possibly have fallen out of the not-sealed envelope. Whoopsie.

Rather than the highly romantic message we were hoping for, it contained wishes for a good day at work and hopes for God's Blessings upon her.

We all fell the floor laughing. I barely made it to the bathroom in time.

It took him that long to come up with the least romantic thing possible. Mentioning work and the Big Guy. Hot.

Imagine our difficultly in keeping a straight face less than an hour later when a local cutie pie (who is a totally sweet lad) came in to order a significantly larger bouquet for delivery FOR THE SAME WOMAN.

And he wanted the card to be blank. Guys, don't do this. Please. Because then confused women call the shop wondering who the hell sent them the flowers.

Apparently, the woman is dating Howdy, and Cutie Pie is just hopeful. Awwww. How darlin'.

Random ten

1. Bring It On Back- Jet
2. Ghosts- Laura Marling
3. Do Right Woman Do Right Man- Niamh Kavanagh
4. She's the One- Robbie Williams
5. Strawberry Fields Forever- Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson
6. Dakota- Stereophonics
7. Pictures Of Matchstick Men
8. Devil- Stereophonics
9. A Certain Romance- Arctic Monkeys
10. I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor- Arctic Monkeys

Bonus-
11. Round Round- Sugababes
12. The Reflex- Duran Duran

Chezza looks great

on the cover of U.K. Vogue

Seems that

they've had a bit of snow in LDN.

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