It’s always great to see more celebrities show their support for Trayvon Martin and his family. I AM READY Foundation Launches Trayvon Martin Campaign California-based I AM READY Foundation, spearheaded by founder Jason Lee, announced today the launch of http://www.FORTRAYVON.org and its #ForTrayvon social media campaign, rallying widespread national support for social justice to “Unite One Million People for Change.” The campaign will directly benefit The Trayvon Martin Foundation to assist in creating awareness of how violent crimes impact families of the victims and provide much-needed support for those families, in light of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Heralded for its innovation and endless pursuit of social justice, the I AM READY Foundation has garnered tremendous support and recognition from Congress, the Senate, and California’s Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx has voiced his consistent support of the Trayvon Martin Foundation and family since Trayvon’s death. The foundation’s latest campaign stresses the message of peace and justice in light of the verdict of the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman trial. “I launched my foundation to create programs that would address the issues that seemed to constantly plague my community. After my brother’s murder, ending senseless violence was at the top of the list. As a witness of his murder and a victim of gun violence myself, I understand implicitly the pain that is felt daily by families and communities like Trayvon Martin’s,” says Lee. The Trayvon Martin “I AM PEACE” T-shirt is available for sale on http://www.FORTRAYVON.org , with proceeds supporting the Trayvon Martin and I AM READY foundations. Celebrities Meagan Good, Kym Whitley, Dawn Richard, Chris Brown, Mehcad Brooks and more have taken a stand by wearing the shirt. To participate in the campaign or become a Youth Ambassador, please visit http://www.FORTRAYVON.org . Check out the pics below.
Vicki’s looking for answers on The Real Housewives of Orange County . Gretchen, on the other hand, is looking to pop the question! Oh, and Terry sold their house for $16.4 million dollars. No big deal. (Hey, remember when Tamra pretended to be Heather’s realtor??) Let’s catch up with these OC Housewives with our THG +/- recap! Gretchen’s at home with her puppies, finally back in town from Canada and filling Slade in on the drama with Tamra. And apparently Heather sent her some pretty condescending text messages that make Heather seem like a Jealous Julie. Green’s not a great color for you, Heather. Minus 12. Terry takes Heather to a beautiful lot with a view of the harbor. $16,450,000 for their custom home. All because they need a 4th bedroom upstairs. Somehow, they’re going from a 15,000 square foot home to a 17,000 square foot home and that’s going to allow Terry to work less and be home more. Huh. Interesting. Eddie and Tamra are two weeks out from the grand opening of their fitness studio. They’ve finally gotten a moment to get together and have dinner and Tamra asks the waitress if the restaurant they’re at does weddings. Eddie scoffs. Minus 10. She asks him to be honest with her. He shows no interest in planning a wedding and she wants to know what he’s thinking. He says the last thing on his mind is the wedding because the wedding isn’t going to pay the bills. Then he tells her to stop pressuring him. Tamra’s not going to plan a wedding until Eddie gives her a date. He tells her to get a wedding planner and she says they need a date first. And they have a date! Plus 30. On June 22nd Tamra Barney will become Mrs. Judge . (Actually it was June 13th. I guess the chapel wasn’t available on their original date.) Vicki had an allergic reaction to her eyelashes. Minus 8 . She’s going to Napa to distill and test Vicki’s Vodka. Brooks will be there. Minus 10. Briana’s not happy about the fact that he’s leeched on to Vicki’s Vodka. Baby Troy looks exactly like his dad. Exactly. Plus 2. Vicki says she doesn’t need a man to support her but she wants a partner. Briana tells her to keep looking. Vicki says they need to agree to disagree and huffs out to catch her flight. Alexis has invited Gretchen to lunch to chat after their trip to Whistler. Alexis should maybe not attempt these meetings without Lydia and her peace pipe. Gretchen wants to know why Alexis never reached out and Alexis says she reached out on Twitter. Alexis starts to cry. Minus 12. Alexis really wants to make amends and be friends with Gretchen again but Gretchen’s having no part of it. She doesn’t know how they go back to where they were before and she’s not really interested in trying. Poor Alexis thought they’d hug and make up and skip out of the restaurant holding hands after exchanging BFF bracelets. Nope. Minus 8 Slowly but surely, every other woman is isolating herself from Gretchen and it’s kind of weird to see. Maybe it’s the editing but it really doesn’t seem like Gretchen is doing anything overtly worthy of everyone dropping her. Aside from being kind of a ditz, which she’s always been. Doug and Lydia are hosting their Life Group. Life Group is a bunch of people who are going through life together. And share cake and tea. Plus 7 Lydia’s “natural trait” is to be silly. That’s her gift from God. Silliness. Really, Lydia? That’s the best you can do? Vicki and Brooks are with two other business partners and she refers to him in the past tense like he’s not there at all. Then says “I don’t know what we are!” like that’s not an awkward car ride. Minus 8. She keeps saying Brooks isn’t her business partner. Robert is her business partner. Brooks is the idea man. When they sample the bacon vodka, she names her signature drink the “Bloody Piggy” as both a nod and weird reverse insult to Slade. Alexis is on her way to film a pilot for an FBI drama and she says, of her marriage, that right now “the I of he and I is much more…one.” Yeah. I don’t understand her either. She feels comfortable with her acting ability because of the classes she’s been taking. And she knows that Heather and Gretchen haven’t been called for this role. Plus 4. She’s reading for the role of a child psychologist. When she reads the lines “I’m just going to show you a picture” she actually draws a picture to show it to the producers reading with her. Ha. Hahahahhaha. Minus 6. Alexis knows she’s no Julia Roberts, but she hopes that maybe she can play “a day in the life of Jennifer Aniston” because Jennifer’s just so cute! Ha. Hahaha. Hahahhahaha. Minus 8. I can’t tell if the producer is feeding her a line with his “a lot of things are starting to happen right now” or if he legitimately thought she gave a convincing read. Gretchen’s hitting the recording studio to put down the vocals to a track she’s going to use to propose to Slade. She knows she’s not the best singer, and the songwriters have the blank stare going hardcore when she tells them that she and Slade were praying for each other at the same time. But this is coming from her heart. Plus 9 I wish you could see the look on the producers’ faces after she sings. Priceless. Vicki and Brooks head to dinner and she wants to tell him thank you no matter where they, personally, end up. He responds with “you’re only as strong as your weakest link.” Um. Minus 12. She wishes they were still together like they used to be. And in order to tell him that she tells him about the stories Lauri told her. He denies it all saying he’s just a big tipper and has been trying to stay far away from her friends. She believes him. Minus 20. Vicki tells him that Briana has been staying with Ryan so she’d like to have him over to the house when Briana’s away. He’s not hearing it. He believes Vicki’s allowing herself to be pushed around by her “adult grown daughter who is now a mother” and seems to want Vicki to choose him over Briana. Vicki tells him that he’s confused when it comes to the two of them and he says no, he’s not, but she is. He’s not going to sit around and wait on her and Briana is tearing them apart. Finally, he spells it out for her. They’re dating, but they’re not exclusively dating. They’re going to make a lot of money together. He wants the best for her but things have to change for them to be together. So now Vicki can stop asking if they’re dating or not dating. EPISODE TOTAL: -62 SEASON TOTAL: -309
In what Nigel Godrich is calling a ‘small meaningless rebellion,’ Atoms for Peace and others exit the streaming service. By Brenna Ehrlich Thom Yorke Photo: Getty Images
In what Nigel Godrich is calling a ‘small meaningless rebellion,’ Atoms for Peace and others exit the streaming service. By Brenna Ehrlich Thom Yorke Photo: Getty Images
I’ve seen many people say that they never thought they would be writing their own Bieber experience. But I always knew that I would write one someday. My idol taught me to chase my dreams and believe in them and that’s exactly what I did. I’m a 15-year-old girl from a small country called Finland in Northern Europe between Sweden and Russia and I met Justin Bieber. It all started when the Believe Tour dates were announced. I was sad to find out there was no tour dates in Finland but there was a tour date in Stockholm, Sweden so I begged my mom to buy me tickets. She did. We got floor tickets and I was so freaking excited. I was gonna see my idol! Then one morning I was laying in my bed when I got a phone call from a belieber friend of mine that I got to know through Twitter. She told me Justin was coming to Finland. I couldn’t believe it. My idol was coming to my country? When the phone call ended, I googled it and it was true! The concert was gonna be the smallest one in the whole tour, there was only going to be about 12,000 people there. We decided to ask our parents for meet & greet tickets and her parents agreed but my parents were hesitant. I get it though, the tickets cost a whole lot of money. That’s why I told them I could pay for at least half of them and sell the tickets we originally bought for Sweden. I ended up getting meet and greets for Finland! Nine months later on April 25th, the day before the concert, I went in front of Justin’s hotel. I saw some of his dancers and his bodyguard. Then things started to get a bit crazy after a while so I left. It was Justin’s day off and I felt like I was disturbing his peace. On the day of the concert I had an entrance exam to a high school and after that we headed straight to the arena. It was raining so my hair got messed up but I really didn’t mind. Justin was two hours late and we missed the opening act. Eventually Justin showed up and the meet & greets started. We all got in line. The first thing I saw of Justin was his quiff. I saw him few times while standing in the line but I didn’t freak out or anything like that. He’s not a God, just a human like all of us. I left two of my drawings on a table we were told to put our gifts on. I doubt he got them though. When I walked in the meet and greet, he looked straight into my eyes and I said “Hi.” I can still see his eyes looking at me clearly in my head. I stood next to him and we took the picture and I got pushed away. It was really quick but I was happy. I walked into the arena and it was full of screaming beliebers. We walked to the front of the floor. There was an area for us right in front of the stage. The concert was an amazing experience. I was so happy to see the person whose songs I’ve been listening to for years performing them live right in front of me. To me, seeing him perform was more important than meeting him. I had promised myself not to take many pictures or videos. (I ended up with 9 pictures and one video.) I just wanted to enjoy the concert live, not through videos. I also promised not to cry. I ended up tearing up during Believe though. I was holding up a sign that said “WE BELIEVE” and Justin looked at it and then at me. The whole experience was amazing. The concert was better than I could have ever imagined. I’m not just saying this because Justin is my idol. It really was amazing. I am so thankful for meeting him and seeing him live after years of supporting him. I proved that dreaming really does pay off. Thank you Justin, you will never know how much you have helped me. -@sinirauhl Read this article: I’ve seen many people say that they never thought they…
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Man Selling His Private Parts To Fund Europe Trip Fellas, how much is your long johnson worth? A Colombia man is slangin’ his D for dollars for a cool $20k. via Huffington Post A poet in Colombia wants to go to Europe so much that he’s willing to fund the trip in a very ballsy way: selling his t*st*cles. Rafael Medina Brochero, 52, is selling the matching set of semen-producing genitalia for the lump sum of $20,000 to fund a European tour in which he’ll participate in “Poetry for Peace in Colombia,” according to ColombiaReports.com. Brochero did not say whether the surgery would be covered in the $20,000, but he said the presumedly used testes might be able to be transplanted into a sterile person or used to make soup, Yahoo! Australia reported. Who knew a bowl of scrotum soup would run you $20,000. Wonder if it tastes like chicken…. Shutterstock
