Remember ‘Playing for Change’? I wrote a post about it a little while ago (here). I’m really happy that this great initiative is slowly gaining momentum. I purchased the ‘Playing for Change’ CD and it has become one of the musical ‘spiritual ladders’ in my music collection, an amasing ladder to my soul I am… Read More Playing for Change features on The Colbert Report
Here is another reason why celebrities shouldn’t be role models: they are often the result of careful marketing strategies. What we think as coming from celebrities, i.e. what some people consider as the standards towards which they strive, are actually coming from a team of people manipulating that stars image. And, however obvious this argument… Read More IHT: ‘When stars Twitter, a ghost may be lurking’
Sometimes it seems like celebrities each live in their own bubble, which makes it all the more fun when the give each other a nod of acknowledgment, just like the one Fall Out Boy gave to none other than Britney Spears…
I can feel the excited, giggly fan-girl within me when I type titles such as the one I graced this post with, coming out of the little room I have sequestered it in. It happens, every once in awhile, that something makes her come out with a vengeance – especially when I read something like… Read More The oddity of intelligence: Another Heather Mallick gem
Celebrity activism could potentially be a great tool with which inspired teenagers would leave their screens (TV or computer) to go into the outside world and help make a difference. Learning to be selfless in a smart, dedicated kind of way would help decrease, if not eliminate the greed underlying many of the problems that… Read More The Economic Crisis: Down with the Economy, Up with Celebrity Activism