I wasn't going to write about how cute Brangelina looks in these photos after seeing them over at Oh No They Didn't. That is, until I saw on my twitter stream a messed up article about the Jolie-Pitts, ganked right out of gossip blogs, published on the Puerto Rican newspaper EL Nuevo Día.

What the hell people?!?! No wonder journalism is dead.

To which I say, TEAM BRANGIE! They soften this cynical bitch's hard cold heart and make me want to fall in love again.

They're just adorable.

Well, let's start with the center of the entertainment universe, shall we? Because I refuse to believe that St. Brangelina of the Unmaculate Conception would go screaming around about suicides and such.

Especially when Angelina looks pregnant.

By the way: Brad Pitt? Why not call him Brad Pimp?

And what the fuck is wrong with him? A pink suit and ascot?

Seriously?

Am just waiting for unicorns to come out of Brad Pitt's butt.

Now let's go on to someone else. Someone like Robert "RPatz" Pattison. You know, the panty creamer from those "Twilight" vampire movies.
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I love this bitch!

Brad Pitt is putting US$100,000 of his money to fight for the right of gays and lesbians to marry.

"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," the actor said in a statement.

Courage! And let it be known that I am in an infinitesimal minority who doesn't find Brad Pitt that attractive.

Now, before the Brangelina-bots go crazy : I recognize that Brad Pitt is a good looking man. He just doesn't do it for me. I don't get the bit, you know, moist just by looking at him.

Now, I loooooove his comedic acting. I loooooove his dadditude. I honestly love Brad Pitt for his philanthropy and his politics. He seems like a genuine decent guy.

Yup. Love the Man for his character not his face.
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A day or two ago I published information given to me by anonymous tipsters about a duo who may have been involved in the stealing of a digital camera memory stick with 450 private photographs from the Jolie-Pitt family's time in Namibia.

Well, there have been rumors of some arrests as reported by both The Daily News' Rush & Molloy and TMZ.com. I have yet to confirm any arrest(s), but it seems like the information we provided on our site led to one of the suspects.

Here's the story so far: The camera which held the memory stick is owned by Angelina Jolie's brother, James Haven. A series of unfortunate events happened to Haven and the camera : The camera broke, he sent it for repairs to the store where he bought it but ... oooooops! Haven forgot to take the memory stick out of the camera. The camera got sent from Malibu to a repair center in Connecticut. That's were the illustrious practitioner of extreme vanning, a Mr. Bill Keyes, pops into our story.
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I have been on the net for ages now, going as far as 1992-1993 when I got my first email account. And I think I was in the first wave of web surfers to get an actual site back in 1994 (eventhough I didn't really get a domain name until 2000). And yet ... and yet.

I still get shocked at how fast things move on the internet. Which is why I always wonder about how much did the Bush Administration really wanted to catch Osama Bin Laden. Had they googled him after September 11, they would have caught him by the 13th. Just saying.

An anonynmous tipster sent me this yesterday :

I'm not sure how reliable this is, or if it's even the same person but the email address from that guy belongs to this website and myspace. He's some dude from Massachusetts who lives in CT as a computer programmer. Bastid!

http://lowrdr27.home.comcast.net/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

And people wonder why I love the net.

Lowrdr27 seems to be the pseudonym for two guys :

Tim Barnes

and

Bill Keyes

Let's just say that after reading Foxes in the Henhouse : How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out, I can tell you this is the kind of down home country guy Mark Warner wants to spends his afternoons courting for presidential votes and inviting over the next four years to the White House. Yeehaw!
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I just got today an email from a Yael E. Holtkamp working for a Lavely & Singer, Professional Corporation. Interesting that nowhere in the email does it say this person is an attorney or that she is working on behalf of attorneys.

The email seems to be a hodge podege of human unreadable legalese with a custom paragraph relating to the photos tacked on at the beginning:

Dear Sir/Madam:

Recently, a digital memory card containing a number of personal copyright protected photographs of our clients was stolen. The police are currently investigating this matter. The photos depict, among other things, private moments and images of our clients and/or their minor children, taken in Namibia, including images from a private baby shower (the “Stolen Photos”). It is obvious to anyone viewing the Stolen Photos that they were taken in private, on private property and that they could only have been taken by our clients and/or a family member, who own all right title and interest thereto.

We understand that the person who stole the Stolen Photos, or an accomplice, has been offering them for sale to the various media outlets and celebrity content websites, and may have offered the Stolen Photos to you.

I hate it when lawyers try to put words in my mouth.

Honestly, it was not obvious to me that the photos were taken in the privacy of their Namibian home. On the contrary, both on the post related to this incident, not only did I think I was a hoax, but I watermarked the image with a plea, asking people for information on where I had seen that photo before.

By the way, the original photo was scrubbed from the server and now substituted with the sign we have above this post.

This is an instance when I really had to contend hard with the "should I or shouldn't I". I felt that if it was a hoax, then I would have loved to punk the seller. But if the photos were indeed stolen, then I honestly wanted whomever was behind this to be taken to task.

The problem with blogging is that, as an outsider, I have no idea who to turn to in cases like this one. Seriously, who do I call? How do I get in contact with the stars reps?

Indeed, eventhough culturekitchen may seem like an operation, it is not. We are just people with access to the technology used by the big publishing companies. Maybe it's time for these representatives to start amicably reaching to people like me, not through illegible pseudo-legal emails.

But let me take this one step further. As someone who cherishes privacy, I would never, ever publish knowingly anything on this site that would breach anybody's right to privacy; especially celebrities. I have a huge issue with the fact that many people believe that celebrities or anybody famous have relinquished their right to privacy just because they are famous.

In this day and age, when anybody can indeed have more than their 15 minutes of fame through self-published digital media (for exmaple, blogs), "paparazzi attacks" can and will be used for their chilling effect. Breaches of people's privacy will be used to silence them and neutralize the power of their dissent, creativity or uniqueness. No wonder so many people blog anonymously.

So, just so we are clear, attacks against 'fair use' by major corporations is one thing. Invasion of privacy? That's a whole other ball game and one I am not willing to play.
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