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    Image of nathanst nathanst
    04:30 AM

    In reply to Did Michael Lohan Just Kill Himself?
    Why don't awful people ever do the decent thing?

    It's almost always the nice schlubs that do it and only rarely the assholes.
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    Image of FaceMelter FaceMelter
    04:32 AM

    @nathanst: If that was supposed to be funny, it wasn't. Fuck you.
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    nathanst promoted this comment FaceMelter was starred FaceMelter was unstarred
    Image of nathanst nathanst
    04:42 AM

    @FaceMelter: Nope, just my observation.

    I'm not a fan of assholes. They suck the joy out of other people's lives. I'm perfectly content with the idea of them ending themselves.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    04:06 AM

    In reply to Did Michael Lohan Just Kill Himself?
    "My lawyers are investigating." That's the real Michael Lohan.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    03:56 AM

    In reply to Did Michael Lohan Just Kill Himself?
    These fake deaths are already boring.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    03:57 AM

    @Airvault: "In the future, everyone will be dead for fifteen minutes."
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    Image of superconnected (is it time to leave?) superconnected (is it time to leave?)
    03:30 AM

    In reply to Did Michael Lohan Just Kill Himself?
    Suicide is painless. It brings on many changes. I can tweet about it if I please.

    Was going to say something striving to be meaningful about the trivializing suicide and online exhibitionism, but fuck it. I get a bit of a thrill being among the first few thousand to know. I knew there was a reason I'm sitting in my bed refreshing twitter at 3:30 in the morning again! My life might be an empty abyss of nothingness, but I'm on top of suicide tweet watch. How many boring bitches with stable lives and sleep schedules can say the same?
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    03:25 AM

    In reply to Did Michael Lohan Just Kill Himself?
    Not sure that it matters, but here's a screen cap I took earlier that includes one extra tweet than the one above.

    Also, re: the deletion, there were only 17 tweets on the account, going back two days. This is not to say that it was a new account -- it wasn't -- but that he's deleted tweets en masse before, so it's not unlikely that he did it again.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    01:42 AM

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    Color me shocked. Two "look at me" celebs turn out to have poor judgment.

    People that hold their breath over this nonsense should shampoo my crotch.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    I don't care how wealthy you are -- adopting that many children + being a celebrity couple that will PROBABLY end in a break-up = fuckin' moronic.

    Angelina just seems like a self-righteous psychopath anyway.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    Or: Could we not root for their breakup since there are 6 kids under 10 involved?
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    Image of fuzzymuffins fuzzymuffins
    11/29/09

    In reply to Seven Reasons Why White House Party Crashers are Awesome for America
    i can see it now:

    help wanted: top world terrorism organization seeks hot MILFs for covert high society infiltration missions. ability to charm security a must. formal education and breast implants optional.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    Did anyone really see them growing old and grey together? On-set hook ups rarely last very long even when you add 6 kids to the mix. Plus, Angelina seems crazy, conniving and manipulative. Pitt seems like a lost follower who mimicks every woman he dates. It was doomed from the start. Fantastic sex does not a stable relationship make.
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    Image of BILHOS BILHOS
    11/29/09

    @heywhat: Everyone thought they wouldn't last a year. LMAO

    No one can foresee the future and predict if a relationship will last.

    I personaly have a hard time believing that a 46 year old man and 34 year woman would be together for 5 years and keep having children if then didn't have a good relationship.
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    Image of KidPresentable KidPresentable
    01:40 AM

    @heywhat: You mean I can't build a relationship on a rock solid foundation of crazy fantastic sex?
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    02:30 AM

    @KidPresentable: I don't think you can but that shouldn't stop you from trying. Hell, haven't we all tried this at least once?
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    02:34 AM

    @heywhat: Well I'm no quitter.
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    03:05 AM

    @BILHOS: I don't know about that whole lasting for a year thing. I remember their coupling was treated like the Second Coming by the entertainment industry. They have been a Godsend for the tabloid editors. Anyways, I don't worship at the alter of Jolie, Pitt or Anniston. I could give a damn about what any of the do but I do know the odds were against Brangelina from the beginning, celebrities or not. I'm not rooting for them to break up, I'm just being realistic.
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    Angelina Jolie is a whole can of crazy.

    It's just taken Brad a looooong time to figure it out.
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    Image of NoelleBlue NoelleBlue
    11/29/09

    @BowlingForDollars: See: Sex: Fantastic = Distracting!
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    Image of dragonhorse dragonhorse
    11/29/09

    @BowlingForDollars: Really high=slow reaction time
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    Image of Zira Zira
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    Every time I want to hate Brad and Angelina for being media whores I remember they gave $6 million to charity last year alone and have devoted a significant amount of their time to innumerable charities.

    Has Aniston done anything for charity? Given anything to charity? Brad got tired of her vacuous lifestyle.
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    Colander promoted this comment Zira was starred Zira was unstarred
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    11/29/09

    @Zira: Didn't she bang Vince Vaughn or something? Does that count?
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    Image of Zira Zira
    11/29/09

    @Colander: It counts if you are Vince Vaughn. Otherwise no.

    Although I suppose her incredible body of cinematic masterpieces is a form of charity to the rest of us.
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    Image of Peggy:Beautiful, like a Llama! Peggy:Beautiful, like a Llama!
    11/29/09

    @Zira: That's not much if you consider they got an estimated $22 million for the twins pic alone.

    Aniston does plenty of charity work, but like most, she doesn't use it to sell an image.
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    Image of Zira Zira
    11/29/09

    Aniston's financial support of various hair salons and clothing stores in the greater Los Angeles area doesn't count.

    (And they gave every last dime of the proceeds from those baby photos to charity.)
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    Image of taritac002 taritac002
    11/29/09

    @Zira: A list of charities she has supported is here: [www.looktothestars.org]

    and here: [www.anistoncenter.com]

    Doesn't list dollar amounts, though, so it could be only tangential or superficial support, like attending $1000/plate celebrity gala type thing. She is the spokesperson for St. Jude now, so there's that.

    I am still on team Braniston, regardless of Angelina's charity work. If Jennifer did some showy charity thing, people would only say that she's trying to compete with Angelina.

    Angelina's charity work could very well be viewed as PR stunts to take the focus off her homewrecking ways. I don't like her, so that's the way I choose to look at it.

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    11/29/09

    @Zira: These comments are actually really creepy? Unless you are Angelina Jolie, then I'm sorry, snakes are scary!
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/29/09

    @Zira: [Ironic Sarcasmâ„¢] Yeah! Team Angelina! [/Ironic Sarcasmâ„¢]
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    01:38 AM

    @Zira: You are scary. Who CARES?!
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    I hope they all die alone. If, for no other reason, than no longer having to endure the meatball names assigned to couples by tabloid folks.

    Braniston? Brangelina? Bennifer? Oh for phuck's sake, just stop it now!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/29/09

    In reply to Correction: Tiger Woods' Wife Kicks His Ass
    Girlfriend lost her shit. Seriously uncool.

    That is a gadgeous bebeh, though.
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/29/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women
    I can't believe this shit. I thought I was on Gawker not Jezebel. Angelina is still the Scarlett Woman? Still? And we are still holding vigils for St. Anniston? Come on now. The sexism and the not so subtle racism here is a fucking joke. ' A 'multicultural' team of nannies'' Oh horrors, does that mean a bunch of darkies and foreigners are looking after Shiloh, the Great White Hope?

    Once more, this time with feeling, Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston because HE WANTED TO. I remember reading about Americas Sweetheart''s reluctance to have children long before Pitt got a whiff of Jolie. All this 'poor Brad bullshit is so stupid. Brad Pitt is a GROWN MAN. He can build houses in New Orleans, don't you think he knows where he wants to stick his dick.

    If I'm team anybody, I'm on Angelina's team because the woman does more than worry about her highlights. She works with refugees and brings attention to victims of war and oppression. Jolie does shit that matters. And I think that's her biggest crime because how dare this sexy, beautiful, successful woman go her own way without asking for our approval. How dare she love those dark children more than Shiloh?!?!? She was a 'bad' girl, taking drugs and cutting herself and she changed without doing the obligatory stations of the cross with Barbara and Oprah. Angelina Jolie has never offered herself up for our derision and judgement and some will never forgive her for it.

    Foster asked who would buy this book and the answer is assholes will buy this book.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    11/29/09

    @topsy: Yeah, I think it's weird when people don't like Angeline Jolie. Like, step your game up and your man won't 'get taken'. But I know Foster jokes, so I assumed he was just adopting the rabble-rousing nature of the subject itself.

    Okay, lastly, 'cause I haven't started drinking yet, but I do hate how their biological child is supposed to be 'the awesome one' and the others are just 'the lucky ones'. They are all wealthy. They are all the lucky one.

    (This all reminds me of Chasing Amy, and the 'finger trap' business, via your past haunting you no matter how much good you do.)
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/29/09

    @topsy: I agree with a lot of what you said, except for the part about Jolie asking for our approval...

    I think approval seeking is a large part of who she is, especially if nannies are made to duck out of pictures and that prominent work-out vein is to be believed. To me she seems extremely high-strung and not actually *happy.* But I guess at least the side effect is that charities and children are benefitting from her altruistic employ of her and Brad's financial largesse.
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    Image of Ariadne27 Ariadne27
    11/29/09

    @themediatrix: Isn't it possible that the nannies also don't want to be photographed? I mean, I never had a nanny, but do families normally include their nannies in pictures? I don't think so...
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    11/29/09

    @topsy: I'm a pretty racially sensitive person but I don't really see the racism in the multicultural brood of nannies sentence. Angelina said herself that she intentionally hired a team of multicultural nannies b/c she felt it was important for the children to be around people that looked like them and knew something about their cultures and ethnic backgrounds. Angelina did talk to Barbara during her transformation from bad girl to do-gooder.

    I don't see Aniston as a saint nor am I cynical enough to question Angelina's motives for doing charity work. I say good for her for helping people in need. Angelina is a sexual confident woman and some women are put off by that but that doesn't mean she isn't a manipulative person. I think she is a master at the publicity game and is great at controlling her image. That isn't necessarily a bad thing though. Why pay a publicist when you can do your own PR?
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/29/09

    @Ariadne27: [bit.ly]
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/29/09

    @themediatrix: I see seeking attention and seeking approval as different things. I guess when you're on the level of Angelina Jolie, you're going to get attention whether you seek it or not so the name of the game becomes controlling it as much as possible. I don't have people judging my mothering skills, possible drug use and even my sanity from a photo, so I can't say if Jolie is doing the right thing or no.

    The thing that makes me so disgusted is this Hester Prynne bullshit. Mean Angie stole Poor Jen's man with the power of her MAGICAL PUSSY. What's a Nice Girl to do when all she has is a hairdo to fight a MAGICAL PUSSY? Every Nice Girl (and the Nice Guys who love them) must band together against the power of the MAGIC PUSSY. Since the goal of every Nice Girl is to find and KEEP a handsome prince, Brad Pitt (a grown ass man) is completely absolved of any responsibility whatsoever. All he has to is drink the potion that will break the Pussy's spell and everyone will live happily ever after. Jesus.
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    12:35 AM

    @topsy: Well, to be honest, I haven't followed any of this at all closely, and you are referencing points that I've barely paid attention to, and in some cases, remain blissfully unaware of.

    In general, I guess I see both women each as somewhat emotionally disturbed but in different ways.

    Angela = originally "unloved" and acting out, finally "pulls self together" and hires a great stylist; gives back because as a former misfit she is filled with empathy (plus, there could be some tax write-offs in play); she then keeps an extremely tight reign on herself, her image and her family because the "pulling together" was so herculean.

    Jen = not very mature, constantly "pained," and lacking a secure identity fails to look within for happiness; has a stunted capacity for autonomy as well as for empathy; is never joyous, and still not healed from her losses, whatever they may be, and generally lacks empathy because of it -- therefore never giving back or appreciating what she has.

    Brad = a man willing to adapt to whatever woman he's with at the moment, and who has never really been on his own anyway -- bouncing straight from one woman to another like a little boy.

    None of them are particularly admirable in my opinion, but then, like I said, I've only given the most cursory thought to the situation. My assessment could be quite wrong, but it's not worth it to me to look more closely.

    Perhaps there *is* a press-play underway that paints one woman as a man-stealer and one as a wounded, wronged sprite, but you know those archetypes have been around forever and were well exploited in literature even before Shakespeare threw their like across the boards. That the tabloids pull these folks into these roles is just the nature of the narrative from my point of view.
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    01:00 AM

    @themediatrix: Well you may have just paid cursory attention but I guess it was quality time because I like your comment
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    01:16 AM

    @topsy: And I yours! :)
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    Edited by themediatrix at 11/30/09 1:17 AM themediatrix was starred themediatrix was unstarred
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