DemonSheep is the gift that keeps on giving.

Not only is @demonsheep wrecking havoc on Twitter and terrorizing the natives over at Facebook, it now has it's own theme song: That sheep ain't right.

20,000 extra braaaaaahwnie points to the auteurs for giving Shaun The Sheep and his friends a cameo

[Via "We Can Never Thank You Enough, Carly Fiorina"]

Grock! I got this from my twitter stream but can't remember who linked to it. This is pure frigging awesome win

I don't begrudge any mami who taps her inner goddess or puta (or both) as part of her re-invention process. Especially when that mami looks as hawt as Shakira. Yet, is it me or is it the lace-front she's wearing? Shakira, in her quest to sex up her image, is looking a lot like Beyoncé.
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Something's off with 2009, the year in which Twitter became a not only a verb but a manner in which human knowledge is condensed. I was talking yesterday with a a friend and telling her how 2009 felt like "the year in death". It wasnt just big luminaries like Michael Jackson, Teddy Kennedy and Farrah Fawcett who were gone. It was all kinds of random celebrities like Brittany Murphy, DJ AM, Karl Malden and Dom DeLouise. And of course, there's the family members who had passed away in both of our families who were not celebrities but still in our R.I.P. lists.

Then, it was while reading the list of 80 celebrity obituaries at OhNoTheyDidnt's In Remembrance - 2009 that it hit me: Here we have yet again another example of how the media as we know it is really, truly dying. It is not up TV news "producers" and newspapers editors to decided who is notable or celebrity enough to be included in these lists. Heck, it is not anymore in their control to decide who is a celebrity —Andrew WK hoaxes notwithstanding. With the advent of social media and the popularity of social spaces like Facebook and broadcasting platforms like Twitter we now have the possibility of knowing about way many more people who at one point either were celebrities or lower-level celebrities or entertainment industry workers with influence whom we would have never heard about if it were up to newspaper and newsroom chieftains.

It's going to be interesting to see the "moment of silence" moment at the Oscars evolve. Maybe the lists will get so long that they will have to drop the format or be forced to become creative with it.

With that thought, here's my 10 Radom Celebrity Obituaries for 2009:


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So I received another press release that made me do a double take. MALDEF or the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is having an OMFGGIVEUSMONEYNOWLOL! awards gala sometime in November and there were two "celebratees" (yes, i know am making that one up) that caught my eye.

First up, Eva Longoria, Desperate Housewives' own Chicana Warrior Princess. She seems to not only plunk a lot of money for a variety of Latino causes, but also does the walk by raising awareness about the plight of immigrant farm workers:
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I have to give it to Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt --at least they are sincere peddlers of pornography. Not so Discovery Channel and the people who run their subsidiary The Learning Channel who've become champions of breedsploitation.

Here at culturekitchen we have written through out the years about how right-wing messaging around pregnancy and breeding falls more into categories of pornography than actual decency and morality. Forced pregnancy advocates --the so called "right to lifers"-- are more excited about the prospect of forcing themselves sexually on women through anti-reproductive rights legislation than they are about promoting family values. They may call it "saving the unborn" but what is at work is not just a fetus fetish, but a desire of total control, domination and subjugation of women.

So it's no wonder that this pornographic idea of women --that women somehow live only to breed on demand-- is something that's become a whole cottage industry in reality TV. A cottage industry completely controlled, it seems, by TLC.
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