CHRISTMAS BUMPS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA – 12.25.10
It is not exactly warm in L.A today – I’d quite like to be in Hawaii right now at Dukes listening to good live music. However, Los Angeles is all okay today too, indoors. The South and NYC have blizzard situations going on. Poor peeps. Here’s ten hot posts being bumped via social media this Christmas right now in Hollywood.
1. Hinewehi Mohi sings for Peter Gordon‘s hangi feast
2. Alison Iraheta & Cindy Lauper can sing
3. Star Politicians – Bill English, Hekia Parata, John Key. Kiwi smiles. :)
4. Taylor Swift gets her Rachel Hunter on
5. Hollywoods Top 50 stars list 2009
7. The Peeps judging the Oscars
9. Hallelujah! Chorus – Flash Mob Opera
10. Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.25.10~
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS IS NOT BANANAS ABOUT DIETING
Sexy Christina Hendricks refuses to lose her curves — because she “loves” the way she looks.
Christina Hendricks of Mad Men whose all chi chis and booty with zero waist says she won’t be going on no diet any time soon. In star speak that’s polite festive language for eat your hearts out this Christmas and New Years people, ’tis the season to be jolly–Christina shines for any of us who can’t even form the thought “no KFC.” Hendricks latest press is that dieting is for European stick insects falling over on runways for lack of good golden New Zealand butter in their systems.
If Christina had said she was going on a diet, it would be really bad timing right now, so I like the way she’s curving out with her press this week. The first syllable of the other word for nation–would have sprung to mind, had she not. Good to see she’s one of us fatties at heart.
“People in the industry have been telling me to lose weight for years but I like the way I look,” Christina said.
“I started out as a model and when I went to Italy to build my modeling book, I gained 15 pounds from all the pastas and cappuccinos.”
Hendricks humorously revealed what she’ll be getting for Christmas! Her family must be a little bananas, like most peoples on Christmas day. The Hendricks sound fun! Creative to say the least.
[Image of Christina Hendricks courtesy of Nature.... oops I mean New York Daily News]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood california USA. 12.25.10~
TRIBE HERMANTOWN OF AVALON – MERRY HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS
A very, Absolutely Merry Christmas to the crazy fun sexy kids of Avalon & Hermantown & Kardashian Dazzle Town of Hollywood. Be well. Much love!!! God bless.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
REFORMED HEROIN ADDICT HELEN BAYLOR, SINGS ALL OF ME, FOR CHRISTMAS 2010
“Mould me in your hands, into a vessel you can use”–song lyrics, the incomparable Helen Baylor
At this minute in Hollywood, a certain malpracticing ‘doctor’ has been accusing a certain A-Listed actress of being a non-reformed and current heroin addict, for his own try hard publicity. This woman has children. And he’s doing this at Christmas time. What a raping grinch!
This is what a real reformed heroin addict does look like. Drug addiction is a disease like any other that is nothing to be proud of or ashamed of either. It’s just something that some good people are or have been afflicted by. Many people in Hollywood, New York and Australia are afflicted by heroine addiction.
This real reformed heroine addict (above) is so beautiful on the inside. Her name is Helen Baylor and for our West Hollywood Christmas Special, Helen sings All of Me live, because in her life, she credits overcoming heroin dependancy on her faith in God. In this song she offers up her life as a broken gift, full of the good, the bad and the plain ugly facts of her life. So powerful! Ms. Baylor makes me bawl my face off when she sings. If you hear her life story, you’ll bawl your face off too. Yet Helen ‘aint ever graced a cover of a tabloid or a visible-to-all magazine. Why is that I wonder? She’s a total winner.
I love her. Stars don’t get more real than Helen Baylor this Christmas. Her story belongs in a future Hollywood film. Helen Baylor’s life is the freaking Christmas story. No one can deny Helen her Christmas story. If you tried, she’d sing you out of the ball park. Go lady! Sing the Christmas blues. Merry Christmas people, especially ya’ll in West Hollywood. This year we are celebrating grinch-freeness in our lives at Christmas.
We are celebrating living lives beyond lies and falsity too. 2011′s hot American goal. It’s actually a miracle many of us are even having a Christmas this year and that we are choosing to. Truly, it is. We overcame a lot this year in two years of the most hideous economy ever, where we still watched the greedy get greedier and act like spoiled children, more uglier to me than heroine addicts are, wanting more so blatantly. That stuff was sick! Average people perhaps like ourselves all got a bit thinner and came out on top this year, still smiling. Wow! How cool are all you people? You’re the best! Let’s keep at it then. Grinch-kicking has become my new sport. Join me in it, in making the world a sweeter place in 2011. Meanness, stingyness (the flipside of greed), let’s kick it to the curb when we see it, to win. Up!
Click on Helen’s picture above to see a winner shine drug free. Her gratitude is medicine. Can’t get enough of her spirit to celebrate living life to the fullest with healthy respect for the gift of life. Wow!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
SOY OR BACK TO MILK?
A SCIENCE/ HEALTH STORY: “The United Kingdom and New Zealand health ministers have advised parents not to use soy-based infant formula. Studies have found that soy-fed infants have estrogen levels an average of seventeen thousand times higher than infants fed human or cow’s milk.”
“The wonder bean that vegans, vegetarians, and health food nuts have sworn by may not be as beneficial as we’ve been led to think.
In 1999, the FDA may have approved the claim that soy is “heart healthy” and reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, but not without the protest of two FDA researchers.
Researchers Daniel Doerge and Daniel Sheehan were opposed to labeling soy food as heart healthy because “abundant evidence that some of the isoflavones found in soy…demonstrate toxicity in estrogen sensitive tissues and in the thyroid.” (more…)
THE RISE OF LATINA IN FASHION AND BEAUTY – L’OREAL SIGNS JENNIFER LOPEZ
Jennifer Lopez, the dancer who once danced for Janet Jackson as a Brooklyn fly girl in That’s The Way Love Goes has been signed by L’Oreal cosmetics company and beauty products giant. Lopez will be the face of EverSleek Sulfate-Free Smoothing System, a haircare collection for smoothing unruly, frizzy hair. A face of Gucci and with a new album, Love set to drop in the near future, J-Lo’s star is on the rise.
As a spokesperson for L’Oreal, J-Lo joins these peers who’ve played this role before for L: “Milla Jovovich, Beyoncé Knowles, Rachel Weisz, Evangeline Lilly, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Julianna Margulies, Eva Longoria Parker, Freida Pinto, Kerry Washington and Gerard Butler.”
Pretty news for the American Idol national talent quest TV Show presenter. Jenny from the block is moving on up.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.4.10~
RUGBY GIRL TRINITY BROOKE HAS A BEAMING SMILE IN THE UK TODAY
As a leader I love her because she can listen and divide matters fairly. In this regard she’s just like her grandma, Lady Thorp–Horiwood on Trinity Brooke’s fearless leadership skills.
Trinity Brooke of rugby royalty has a beaming smile today as she hangs out with some girlfriends for a bit of socialite time in the U.K. She is the grandchild of Lady Patricia Thorp, the sweetest woman who served Auckland City on The Council looking after the environment. That was Lady Thorp’s hot thing, amongst many. As a leader, Brooke is a young lady I trust. She’s always worthy of spotlight and she’s a pearla.
When it comes to entertainment trends, Trinity has the best tastes. She grew up with women the ilk of Debbie Harwood singing impromptu (no bands, no palava just real true fearless Kiwi talent) around her dinner table, as a kid growing up in New Zealand, so you can’t blame Trin really. She’s the real deal Pasifika knowing Kiwi girl. Impeccable taste.
Trinity and myself, thanks to Lady Thorp, both went together to see Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson perform live in concert, because Patricia was like that. If someone was talented with a message people needed to see and hear and feel, Patricia was the all for the talented person in the world. I still thank her for her gifts of leadership today, that Trinity Brooke now also carries so richly in her young life. Trinity Brooke is special. She knows the ways and I know that Trinity does. Women of action. Can’t be beat.
When we last caught up with Trinity, she’d recently given birth to baby Oscar Brooke and then had launched right on into a wee triathlon excursion. Kiwi’s–we’re full on!
Trinity is all about health and fitness. Actually this girl always has been as far as I can recall. Love her. She’s a fine basketball player and netball player too.
What a gorgeous Maori-Kiwi smile. Full beam ahead then. Hey Trin. :)
[Trinity Brooke is proudly of the Ngati Awa Maori tribe and also of Matakana Island Maori tribal affiliations too. Now based in London, Brooke is from Auckland the Supercity and has fun family in Melbourne Australia too. Image Trinity's own. Amy Te Whetu is pictured with Trinity on the right. Go Maori-Kiwi girl's in the UK!]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.11.10~
HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTOR ROGER DONALDSON’S MOM LOOKS GOOD AT 91!
As Richie McCaw, captain of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby football team, played his 91st international football test much at Twickenham England yesterday–a very special lady hit the town in Hollywood.
Roger Donaldson’s mom, is loving being 91. Tonight she rocked out in support of Maori-Jewish Kiwi director/ actor/ writer Taika Cohen to see his new film Boy at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
What a woman, supporting worthy talent in global film making of significance. She gets it. Always go to a film that’s won an award. The chances are, it will be a beauty. As is the case tonight, with Boy. You’ve got to see this movie. Community humor with a diversely funny and amusing different worldview.
Love Mrs Donaldson! Can we clone your mom Roger, in California?
She rocks. Last seen going for a hearty dinner at 9pm. What a hoot!
[Incidentally,The All Blacks' won 26-16 win at Twickenham]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.6.10~
BRITNEY SPEARS AND JASON TRAWICKE HIT THE GYM
Britney Spears is still a gym bunny as she puts fitness first this weekend with beau, Jason Trawicke. No pink wig for Brit Brit this Halloween.
[Image courtesy of CG]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.31.10~
MICHELLE OBAMA IS ALL ABOUT FITNESS AND DANCE
Michelle Obama leads by example in wanting a healthy America. In this image, the First lady looks happy as she leaves the NFL Play 60 in New Orleans, post giving a speech in front of the local media and a large group of school children. FLOTUS had spoken of how exercise and a healthy diet and are rocking combo. Image via Splash News.
This week, FLOTUS appeared on TV Talk Show Ellen, popping her dance moves as she was intro-ed onto the show.
When Ellen suggested that she was the better dancer than husband Barack Obama, Mrs Obama nodded: ‘I’m sure of that.’
“He tried to dispute it when he was here,” Ellen said.
“He’s wrong. I think we have proof,” Michelle joked.
It’s good to see the First Lady having fun. This on the back of a White House aide sending out a press release to the world with her name spelled wrong as The UK’s Daily Mail noted. It happens. Go here to read about genuine human error, of an intern who obviously is watching too much Glee when spelling names like that.
Next up though for America’s leading lady is the announcement that “First lady Michelle Obama and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett will travel Friday to Chicago for the funeral of Bishop Arthur M. Brazier, a White House official said.” A man who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King - Brazier is the author of: Black Self-Determination, Saved by Grace and Grace Alone and Delivery Systems for Model Cities. Sounds like a rivetingly good read to me!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.29.10~
SCOTTISH ABS by JARED LETO
You know, it’s guys like Jared Leto that make you want to get your mouth wired together.
Jared flaunts a zero percent body fat body, along with a bit of campy Scottish humor.
“Real Men Wear Skirts,” Leto tweeted along with the pic below.
I can’t relate, those abs are criminal for a guy who sings. Unreal. Alright, hit the gym time.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.24.10~
ANGELINA JOLIE – A DRUG DEALER’S RETRO FOOTAGE – HAS AMERICA BUZZING
What Hollywood needs is hug dealers, not more drug dealers–Horiwood 2010
With an over-emphasize on drug cartels ‘invading America’ (‘Washington’s latest enemy construction, yet true too as fact) from the cover of The Washington Post this week, Angelina Jolie draws the hyped up focus on drugs within America and fixation on them, onto herself, taking the focus offshore to where she’s filming in Bosnia.–Clever as she draws out the poison of an unhealthy national drug focus. Her message, ‘drugs are a thing of the past.’
Angelina Jolie was not always the angel, we know her as today.
Hollywood’s face of humanitarian glamor was once put through her paces, at a gruelling pace, just like any other sought after actor in Tinsel Town.
This tabloid cover and the accompanying video footage interview the magazine claims to have seen of Jolie, allegedly wasted on drugs, has America buzzing today. The story line to bring attention to drug useage in America follows, “Jolie’s ex-drug dealer talks of her heroin and cocaine days.” via HuffPo. & UK Sun.
If you live in Hollywood, and walk to the local 7-11 (50 yards from where I live), you’ll get encountered by a sketchy looking character, who fits the description of Jolie‘s alleged nemesis of this tabloid story, allegedly pimping a tale of the actress today. First up, Michael Jackson revealed to the world, that doctors are who A-List people go to for drugs. Not non-doctors. But that’s another story. This is a Hollywood hood story. Let’s go with it. But already it’s a little bit ridiculous.
Drugs are not glamorized here. It’s just like, ‘oh well, that’s what they’re doing at the moment,’ when a drug scandal or story comes up. Only tabloids, (studios who want to make a quick buck with a drug themed film) and media blow drugs up from Hollywood as a scandalous topic. If you’re a local in Hollywood, part of being a Hollywood local, is avoiding them at every turn. Drugs are not glamorous, but are a part of people in Hollywood expresssing and trying to find themselves.
Drugs and drug dependancy offer a false sense of power – they are used by people who really want to say ‘I need more love than what I got in childhood, or am getting in my life today.’ They’re a creative way of saying that. In a way, drug users and dealers are represented as being dishonest thugs – not always the case, they are honest in the sense that using drugs, says they just need love.
Genuine love is needed by everyone, a drug user makes their statement that way. An overdependence on drugs are the stand in, for the real love they need on a much deeper level. Many creative people use drugs to escape a noncreative reality that does not fuel their talent, or to slow themselves down, or as a barrier of availability to people who exploit their talent to create, without considering the person, with the talent in context with their talent. Many creative people are either overworked, or, abused for their magical talents. Drugs is the way these people switch off the world and protest.
What they need is love. Because Hollywood is fueled by creative people who create. Drugs will always be a part of the culture of Hollywood. They are a currency in entertainment circles to wheel and deal. Because in a deficit economy, creative people are the real stars, who can create new products to get America out of debt quicker, people use drugs to try and draw in creative people into their web to create for them. True creativity is not drug dependant, so true creatives, can and will always avoid the trappings of drug culture because to be ensnared by anyone or anything is against the nature of a true creative. Drugs are the sign, that someone is losing or lost their creative, authentic power – in a shuffle or a game of trade offs.
I have learned from personal experience that if you live in Hollywood – drugs are always the sign of someone not coping, or a sign of the weak. They’re always a sign, that someone is angry, numbing their pain from past grievances, wrongs against them. They’re a sign of someone in emotional pain, self-medicating. No judgement towards drug users, but they often need a hug rather than more drugs. Having said that, many genuinely fun people use drugs too here. No slight on anyone in doing a normal story on a real topic that factually happens in Hollywood any day of the week.
Food for thought today worth sharing. Today Jolie, is the fulfillment of her drug dealer’s redeemed potential as a leader and human being of the world. She’s a hug dealer, not an illegal drug dealer – for people in the world who suffer atrocities at the hands of others- who need a hug from a Western leader, for their causes.”
[If you have been drawn to this story, and you feel like you are drug dependant, the AA are believed to run the best recovery programs here in America. West Hollywood's meetings draw people from all over L.A. Check out their website here. Life gets better when love replaces all fear!]
[Image courtesy of Life & Style Magazine]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.20.10~
GAY TEEN BULLYING – A WOMAN WAITS AT A BUS STOP IN WEST HOLLYWOOD – 10.20.10
It is the essence of wisdom to save lives — King Solomom
When teens are the focus of a sparkling campaign, the elderly of any community are not excluded–Horiwood
A woman waits at a bus stop in West Hollywood, on a rainy day. She is a double minority in West Hollywood.
Gay bullying is a topic consuming Americans right now (also politicians of America). Hilary Clinton gave a very strong message on the topic to gay teens.
If you live in West Hollywood – gay bullying can be defined like this. The young man on this bus stop poster for a 2Exist underwear campaign, has a message for teens who identify with being gay. The message as a model, is “to exist, buy these underwear.” Clever with maximum visibility in a big spend campaign where this image is plastered everywhere in West Hollywood and Hollywood at the time of writing.
The truth is, within the gay community, if you do not have a body that looks like this and you’re a teen, the chances are, you are most likely to be bullied within gay culture’s hierarchies, by someone who does. That goes with gay culture.
For all gay teens being bullied. If you want to identify with being gay and not be bullied – Hit the gym. That message is also as real as Hilary Clinton’s message. If you are a depressed gay teen, go here to watch her message.
Smile! Hit the gym. And the golden rule for all teens – “no glove. no ‘love.’ That’s a start in not be bullied and valuing your own life. Not being bullied starts with this golden rule, for all teens anywhere, being bullied.
Finally, the woman in the picture above, her chances of being bullied in West Hollywood, by being ignored and not included, are perhaps going to be higher on a daily basis of social behavior than any gay teen will experience a day in West Hollywood. Food for thought, when talking about bullying within society overall.
My point is. All bullying is wrong, and consideration in “a liberty nation” should be practiced more from all peoples towards others, regardless of sex (gender), ethnicity, body types, hair color, or hair volume or no hair at all status, religious preference, sexual preference, social status, employment status, physical looks, age (ageism)or the language that people speak as a first language. These topics of bullying, all exist in West Hollywood, at the time of writing. As they do, in any community of people, livng alongside each other. They all need work, along with gay teen bullying across America too.
Peace ya’ll. This image of the sky, taken directly above this bus stop’s location. A different view, just by tilting the camera above the same bus stop on Fairfax & Santa Monica. Camera angles preferences are deceptive, we need to show the whole picture, on all issues as media and good residents of America with a view for all people. This is true equality also. Snapped today while looking up for inspiration.
He.ck.Art. – Heck Yeah! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.20.10~
GERARD BUTLER – IT’S AMAZING WHAT A SUIT CAN DO – FOR L’OREAL
Our Scottish-Hollywood brother, Gerard Butler is not someone, who first springs to mind for having the best and healthiest skin in the bizzo.
Perhaps because Gerard had too much whiskey in his baby bottle, when his folks wanted to head off to the local, on Saturday nights. I’m joking.
But seriously, here’s Gerard donning a suit and filming a commercial for L’Oreal. Score!
[Images courtesy of GB Gallery]
AARON CARTER TWEETS A ZERO PERCENT BODYFAT BODY, ON 10.10.10
“There’s ripped and then there’s Rip Taylor“–Horiwood on Aaron Carter’s body.
Today is 10.10.10 day. And as each day we do a top ten, we’re all good, any day of the year.
Names like Bo Derek come to mind on a day such as today, within America The “Body Beautiful’s” shores and borders.
But let’s go with this pic tweeted by singer Aaron Carter, who wants everyone to know that he’s the king of hitting the gym, with a zero percent body fat body on 10.10.10.
If you live in Hollywood, you know that bodies like this are achieved through a mix of hitting the gym like a neurotic. Perhaps a tad bit of manorexia, and maybe by partying too much too, and definitely a personal trainer six days a week, screaming at you while holding your gym towel. That’s an artform here in LA, as well as a career. Body types like this are quite common in California – and often a far cry from healthy.
Looks are deceptive.
[Rip Taylor's Hollywod star, Hollywood walk of fame 10.10.10]
DANCE CHOREOGRAPHERS AS ARCHITECTS OF CULTURE, 2010′s – $100 MILLION DESIGNATED TO HOUSE DANCE AND ART AS HEALING FOR GROUND ZERO GRIEF
~Thought for today – We should all be taking dance classes already- And one child in every family, should be a disciplined ballet star-2010′s. This is an age of “dance that honors mothers American journeys”~
Let’s face it, Ground Zero is one of those haunting memories akin to Auschwitz. The memories burn in all of our brains from tv screen images.
New York today have found a good cure to help heal wounds of wars scars, from the American psyche at site Ground Zero.
According to the Arts Beat Blog of the New York Times: “A committee of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on Wednesday recommended that the corporation allocate up to $100 million for the performing arts center planned for ground zero. The money would come from a pool of some $200 million formerly designated for utility companies. At the corporation’s Wednesday board meeting, Kate D. Levin, the New York City cultural affairs commissioner, said the money was important “to fulfill this critical part of the master plan.”
The financing, adds $50 million in federal money already designated to the development corporation.
FREE iBREASTCHECK APP VIA THE UK FOR AMERICA’S NATIONAL TREASURES, ROCKS
After research revealed that 50% of all women are forgetting to get regular breast cancer check ups, a new app has been developed for ladies phones and breasts.
iBreastcheck allows the girls, to set a personalized alarm clock, to remind of check up times. Said Bernie Nolan who is being treated for breast cancer:
“This is an incredible development from Breakthrough Breast Cancer. I only wish it had been thought of sooner. The earlier breast cancer is found, the earlier we have a chance of beating it.”
Isn’t this the purpose of technology and medical science knowledge fusing together, for what they’re meant for? Saving lives. Saving breasts, America’s national treasures too!
That’s awesome. Grndr one of these apps, a hot girl’s way to celebrate health, life, well being in the world – and be a man, I say! In order for men and children to be healthy in community, women with the best healthy breasts in America are US all too. Way cool! This app created by the U.K to help that along.
iProstatecheck TM does not sound as sexy for men, as this little number, but that app should happen too on the IT health front for us men. Technology is a gift to preserve and care for Life. Love it today.
Here’s Christina Hendrick‘s who says in Harper’s Bazaar that everyone’s hitting on her, women, men, gay, straight – the whole shabang – and she’s happy about that. “It’s flattering,” says Hendricks.
Um, there is nothing flat about Christina at all, so that was funny! Bump this post on for the ladies you care about and love. IT’S FREE, our favorite.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.6.10~
CRUSHING IN THE HOOD ON MEGAN GANGITANO, THE BOXER
Meet Megan Gangitano. She works five yards? away from where I live. Aren’t I lucky?!
Megan is a boxing trainer, as well as a hot mama. Here’s Megan’s Muhammad Ali tattoo to share.
“Don’t quit, suffer now and live the rest of your live as a champion.”
Swoon! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.1.10~
OLIVIA ABBOTT WITH THE LATE RAMZA BOOKDALA KANIM
Oliva Abbott survived a 7.1 earthquake recently. She’s a lucky young lady of Christchurch. Here’s Olivia as a babe with grandmother, the late Ramza Bookdala Kanim. She lived in California to the legendary age of 110, so the Hollywood legend goes.
Ramza, like Olivia had an uncanny knack of surviving life threatening disaster. She was once supposed to be aboard the Titanic as a teen, but a train she was to meant to be on to board the ship, caught fire and was gutted, which meant a young Ramza fortuitously missed her passage onboard the Titanic.
This lady was a legend. As prayerful as she was exercise and health conscious. Ramza was as family-minded as she was sweet in spirit; loving, selflessly elevating of others and uplifting with a rich gift of encouragement. Good actions were her chiefly love language. She was Love.
I never met Ramza in the flesh before she passed away, but I’ve read her daughters letters to their mother, that say the most sweetest things that any children could ever write of their mom. She was a much loved lady, revered by those around her because she was adorable. A woman who had amazing children too. She was remarkable.
With a great grandmother like Ramza and her family, who knows what young Olivia will grow up to achieve in the world, already having survived a massive quake. Already O has a worldview conscious of countries around the world and what different issues they are being faced with due to global warming’s unpredictable effects. A good future ambassador, Olivia Abbot is growing up to be.
This photo is just too cute. The Apple doesn’t fall . . . too far from the . . . scarf.
[Image Olivia's own family archives]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.7.10~
WHEN THE BOYS LIGHT UP
… the room. Bruce Bryan M.D with my original Californian ‘Godfather,’ Papa Elie.
Back in California’s early history, Elie Kanim was a founding member of the Sierra hiking club. Mountains are where California’s leaders can be found.
Although I never had the honor of meeting her before she passed away, Elie’s wife Margaret Kanim was said to be the sweetest lady ever. Here’s what the Sierra Club’s website has to say about Margaret as a founding member of the club too.
“Margaret Kanim went ice skating at Dollar Lake with this group of Sierrans on Nov. 21, 1948 with Chuck and Lilian Gerckens.” Margaret’s legacy is one of love and Papa Elie is the happiest man in the world. I swear. :)
[Photo of Margaret Kanim [nee Hilkie] from Charles & Lillian Gerckens Collection, Angeles Chapter Archives, because Senators daughters of Kentucky as leaders of California, should be remembered on Hollywood news blogs. Always. xox].
~In Celebration of California family life. Posted by Horiwood.Com, 8.7.2010~
PEACHES N’ CREAM, FOR LESS
With Eminem‘s Recovery album, blaring emotively expressive, (yet a tad bit explicit) lyrics through iPods and iPhones into America’s ears and collective psyche, I’ve taken a little bit of a shine, to celebrating the American Art of Recovery on Horiwood.Com, in the land of peaches and cream.
My version of recovery, is not being too proud to go to the 99 cents store as a starting point when you shop, because believe it or not, these healthy peachy numbers, averaged out to be 17 cents each. That’s my kind of a tasty snack that’s not out of one’s reach. (more…)
BOTOX FOR BREAKFAST by COURTNEY COX
Always trust a girl, who admits to using botox to get ahead. Actually, over 32 in Hollywood, that’s not a revelation of any kind. It’s a given. :)
Here’s Courtney Cox whose more over-photoshopped than botoxed in this pic, making an appearance for America’s celebrity style bible, InStyle. Courtney as a celebrity idea is always consistently sweet.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.17.2010~
McOATMEAL FROM McDONALDS
Quality coffee has a lot of market strength when growing franchises around the world. So much so, that to compete with Starbucks, next January McDonald’s will offer oatmeal topped with cranberries, apples and raisins and blended with cream. Washington D.C. and Baltimore are the test markets, selling O@Meal for $1.99. Smoothies and frapps are becoming a staple of McDonalds soon too.
That’s very Starbucks and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf terrain, if ever you saw a French Fries outlet put a healthy face on things. Good for them! Quakers must be ecstatic in America at this news.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.5.2010~
JUSTIN GASTON AND FRIENDS GET NAKED FOR PETA
If I Can Dream reality TV stars are hot. So are these words in Arabic:
إِنَّ الرَّبَّ يَدِينُ الأُمَمَ. اقضِ لِي يَارَبُّ كَحَقِّي، بِحَسَبِ مَا فِيَّ مِنْ كَمَالٍ.
In English the words are a commentary on the process of justice’s refining traits: “Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity within me.”
Unusual words for an inspiring Hollywood pop star, to tattoo as an expression of their Elvis pelvis, spirituality. Only in America! Gotta love the creativity.
Pop star. Justin Gaston, emerging Brazilian supermodel, Giglianne Braga and Ben Elliott, take their kit off for puppies, kitties and animals. Apparently, according to this campaign.
Marketing to sex up animal welfare, is what PETA love to do. In this case, they take a symbol of Miley Cyrus‘ American teen princess trajectory (actor, musician and an ex of Cyrus), Justin Gaston and in a Twilight Saga pop cultural movie reflection (trilogy), add the hotness of Giglianne Braga and Ben Elliott to the campaign images. Naked of course.
Actually, this image is more about California’s pursuit of physical perfection and body beautifulness than animals–but hey, no one’s going to complain, I’m sure–at these political animals effort. Hot.
With his scriptural tattoo from the ancient book of Psalms, Gaston makes the Torah and the Bible look a little sexy. Needless to say Giglianne Braga is too smoldering to be contained in a camera lens’ representation of her. Ben Elliott just is. Apart from being total freaks of genetics and nature, some people are just so blessed/ cursed (you decide that one) to come out of the womb like this. Nightmares ensured for their parents when they hit teenagehood–but finally, such people have found each other. What a sweet story, and good for them!
Actually, this pic looks very Adam Eve and Steve, so what’s that sayin?! Ridiculously sensationalist–or a ‘good’ campaign. :)
Giglianne Braga is the new Kim Kardashian styled bikini body of America, if she plays her cards right. Thought hot, that would certainly be a step up from this. And she’s now cemented herself into American pop cultural life as a sex symbol and icon of Earth’s concerns.
Expect to see Miley’s current lad, Liam Hemsworth take his gear off soon–to challenge this image. What next?!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.2.2010. Source~
