► Hilary Baldwin created an uproar when she opened her yogahole and disclosed she was paid $95,000 for selling photos of one of her kids with Alec Baldwin. That got me thinking about the obscene amount of money celebs have made from selling baby photos of their spawns for an easy paycheck. You'd think these celebs who have a net worth of a small country would not sell out their kids at such a young age. But they do. And, those that have, you'd think they would donate their windfall. NOPE. Most of them pocketed the money or channeled it to their own private foundation a.k.a.tax loophole of the wealthy. Below are the top 10 most expensive baby photos. BTW, these figures are not adjusted in today's dollars. So the $15 million Jolie-Pitt stain made back inn 2008 = $22 million in 2025.   Read More Knox & Vivienne Jolie Pitt: $15 million (Angie Ho & Stale Bread Pitt) Max & Emme Lopez-Anthony: $6 million (JLo & Marc Anthony) Shiloh Jolie Pitt: $4.1 millio...

  ► Various dictionary companies and platforms got together at their respective watering holes to reflect on 2025 and decide on the one word their organization selected that, "culture watchers say encapsulate the zeitgeist of 2025".  Without further adieu, this is what each org selected as their winner, followed by mine.  Read More   Image: writerofwordsetc.substack.com Merriam Webster Dictionary:  Slop. The fine folks at MW define it as "digital content of poor quality usually produced by AI".  In the old days, slop was the word I would use to describe Tuesday's lunch at my elementary school cafeteria (shit on a shingle). Glassdoor.com:  Fatigue. According to the job search site, "fatigue" was chosen because workers are tired. Duh..no shit. Collins Dictionary: Vibe Coding . This is defined as, "the use of natural language prompts to instruct AI to write computer code instead of writing it from scratch". In other words, lazy. Oxford Diction...

    I've missed you dumplings! My massive work project has kept me away from snarking on celebs.  Things are starting slow down (a bit), so I hope to resume by normal posting schedule starting next week. Fingers crossed. Okay, let's get to it. ► Singer and actress Rumer Willis...(I laughed as I typed that), uploaded an IG video of her strolling in the woods and complaining about how hard her life is as a single parent to her 2 year old daughter. BTW, Rumer is the spawn of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore. She's lived a life of privileged and wealth. Anyhoo, through a flood of tears that raised the sea levels more than all the glaciers in the world spontaneously melting, Rumer  whined and sobbed about the hardships of raising a kid on her own since she split from her boyfriend. She concluded her "Woe Is Me" audition video for  martyrdom status by giving the camera a thumbs up. The internet had no sympathy for the heaping pile of whine casserole Rumer served wit...

  ► Over the weekend, Mel B (51) of the Spice Girls sashayed down the aisle to marry husband #3, hairstylist Rory McPhee (37). IMO, Rory looks like David Spade with dark hair. Her bridesmaids were her 3 grown kids - well, 2 of them are grown adults and one is 13. The future ex-husband #4 wore a kilt from the costume dept of Braveheart. Mel opted for a dress from the Stridex Acne Collection. The only member of the Spice Girls who attended was Emma Bunton (Baby Spice). I guess she had nothing better to do. In case you forgot (like I did), Mel B was kicked out of the group last year for spilling secrets about them. I have no idea what those secrets were. Probably that Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) never sang and lip synced her way to fame; or that Gerri Halwell (Ginger Spice) is not a natural redhead. Who the heck knows...or cares. The Spice Girls are about as relevant these days as Quiznos Subs.   Read More   Rory McPhee and Mel B. Photo: Max Mumby/Indigo; Getty Images...

Cool Britannia was the rage of the 90s. I watched the docuseries Beckham by Fisher Stevens (Michelle Pfeiffer's boyfriend in the early 90s) on Netflix and came away with thoughts about the family and my adopted country. It surprised me that it is a promising docuseries; even if I would like to ship Brooklyn, his wife, and his mother in an airless cargo container to a Third World port, it was captivating. It captured a pre-911 pop culture world that underscores the entire series. I had to brace myself because David's  voice is like they clipped his balls after his first penalty kick. That voice rivals Mike Tyson's and is equally imbued with a slightly, nay, more like ear drum abusing accent that, mixed with the voice, sounds like they are voicing an animated movie and are method acting the holy shit out of it and refuse to let it go. I can't bear to hear David Beckham speak. I would rather have a fingernail yanked out than endure his bebeh voice. I survived it, though, ...