The Another One... Doesn't Bite The Dust, Really Post.

Rosanna Arquette, Cindy Crawford, Laetitia Casta, Britney Spears, Jessica Alba, Monica Bellucci... and now Mariah Carey's finally become pregnant, another one joins the yummy mummy (or to use Cindy's preferred term MILF) club. You know you're getting older when all your favourite women become mothers (although some of them do so earlier than others, Britney and Laetitia in particular - Miss Casta is 32 and already has three kids!).

Of course, some fans have yet to experience this (Helen Mirren has no children, which may explain a lot) while others are completely used to it. Although that doesn't mean I won't be surprised when/if Hilary Duff or Hayden Panettiere announces an upcoming blessed event.

Congratulations to Mariah! (I refuse to congratulate Nick Cannon, because a) he's not the one who'll have to go through excruciating pain several months from now and b) frankly, I'm jealous.)

The Shameful Admissions Post.

There are some things I hate to admit, and this is one of them - P*r*zH*lt*n is right on something.

The beating-deserving slug has suggested that Mariah Carey doing a new Christmas album is a great idea... and it is ("All I Want For Christmas Is You" is, after all, the last really good new Yuletide number). I might even buy it. Along with the first one...

The Number Of The Beast Post.

Nothing Satanic here, it's just that this is the 666th post on this blog. So that mentioned...

If there's one thing that irks me about the celebslash series The Harem, it's that half the messages on a story group that I'm a member of are from people suggesting women to include. This is irritating for two reasons:

1. There's such a thing as staying power to consider (making an immediate splash is all very well, but being there for the long haul helps), and

2. Inundating poor Mr. B with requests gets in the way of women he himself might like to write about, and also robs requestees of actually contributing stories themselves. Okay, not everyone can put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, as it were) but you can at least try.

Also irritating: people who don't have a TV and feel the need to lecture people about how superior they are for not having one, but that's another story. (Suffice to say this does not apply to Aria Giovanni, who posted on her blog about her lack of a box but didn't feel the need to condescend about it. A lesson many would be wise to heed.)

And now here are pictures of Jessica Alba, Mariah Carey and Laetitia Casta.




Good night, and may the good news be yours.

The Is That Your Ad? I Don't Know Post.

At least Lily Allen hasn't got a perfume yet.



Musically nice, visually... well, Mariah Carey baring flesh has never been a problem for me personally. I'm sure Amelie Gillette at The Onion will slate it, but screw her.

And it demonstrates that Britney can in fact bounce back (remember when everyone was writing off Mariah after the breakdown and Glitter and so on?). Too bad Mariah still has yet to have a chart-topper in the UK that isn't a cover version...