OH NO! Not Slime Slade and Ho Jo!

The Real Housewives of Orange County certainly created some of the most absurd moments and bizarre characters for our viewing pleasure. Now Jo De La Rosa and Slade Smiley will have their own show, entitled “Date My Ex” on Bravo .

Here’s an excerpt of what Jo had to say last week:

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By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Jun 16, 2008If there’s one thing Jo De La Rosa of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Orange County” wants to make known, it’s that former fiance Slade Smiley is not her manager, as has been reported. “He’s not anything to do with business. I don’t know why people thought he was my manager, but he’s not,” she tells us. “If anything, Slade’s been my guide for the last couple of years,” she adds. “If I had any question on contracts or decisions I’ve had to make, I would go to him. He’s also been there if I ever needed a little push or whenever I had some self-doubt.”Jo De La Rosa

Oh please…this may be the most contrived piece of bullshit ever to hit the airwaves.

In season one of the RHOOC , Jo was supposedly the kept woman fiance of Slade Smiley, a something-or- other for a title insurance firm. They lived in a typical Orange County McMansion in Coto de Caza, characterized as a “place so far from the beach you need a passport”. Jo was supposedly 24 at the time. She told us everyday.

Slade’s two sons from previous relationships rounded out this idlyic little scenario. Jo, who was born in Peru and whose parents won the California State Lottery, always claimed to have graduated from UC Irvine. Proving that even a moron can obtain a college degree.

Slade , who always lied about his age, came from Anchorage, Alaska, where he participated in bicycle races.

These are excellent qualifications for famewhoredom.

Anyway, the highlight of their two seasons on RHOOC was alcoholic Jo wanting something to do other than be a “housewife”, and Slade wanting her to do nothing but be his kept whore. They broke up at the end of season one, with Slade dating RHOOC “Mother of the Year” Lauri Waring, breaking up with her just in time for season two.

During Season Two, the facade continues, minus the youngest child, Grayson, whose mother has the good sense to keep him off this trainwreck and who was also diagnosed with a brain tumor. This small fact doesn’t slow the train, as Jo and Slade continue to annoy and irritate. Jo moves to Los Angeles, leaving Slade, supposedly to pursue a singing career, but apparently just preparing for this “new” trainwreck.

In the meantime, Slade’s McMansion is in foreclosure. He owes much more on it than it it worth. Remember the American Express Black episode? They are in litigation with him.

Actually, this show is more real…should be entitiled “Pimp and Ho.”

Reality TV? Absurd.

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George Carlin….Rest in Peace

 

Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies – CNN.com

George Carlin was one of the people I meant to see in person, and never did.  He appealed to what is absurd in me, he spoke to my spirit.   I always loved his bizarre sense of humor.

Loved and admired him

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A Losing Formula

From MTV News:

Officials at Massachusetts’ Gloucester High School were at a loss to explain why the teen pregnancy rate at their school had more than quadrupled over the past year. According to a report in the new issue of Time magazine, the dramatic increase is due, in part, to a pact among 17 girls from the school, none older than 16, who vowed to get pregnant and raise their children together.
The girls’ plan shocked parents and administrators at the 1,200-student school and sparked a still-simmering debate about contraception in the fiercely Catholic fishing town’s schools, the Boston Globe reported.
“More students are coming in and asking about pregnancy testing,” Gloucester’s public health director, Jack Vondras, told the Globe last month. “What’s odd is that some of them are disappointed because they’re not getting pregnant.” The Time article reported that at least half the pregnant teens planned to have the babies and that some high-fived each other and began planning baby showers when they found out they were expecting, while others seemed disappointed when their results came back negative. School officials began investigating the unusual spike in teen pregnancies in October, when more than the usual amount of students began visiting the school health clinic for pregnancy tests. By May of this year, Time reported, the school’s nurse practitioner had administered 150 pregnancy tests at the clinic, prompting the staff to advocate prescribing contraceptives to students without parental consent.
Equally disturbing is that some of the men involved in the pregnancies are in their mid-20s, one reportedly being a homeless 24-year-old from the area. Last month at a school committee meeting, Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk inquired about filing statutory-rape charges against some of the men, according to the paper.
The Time report described the predominantly white, blue-collar town of 30,000 as having been hit hard by the downturn in the fishing industry, with school Superintendent Christopher Farmer saying that the economic hardship has devastated some local families. “Families are broken,” he told the magazine. “Many of our young people are growing up directionless.”
Two Gloucester teen moms who unexpectedly got pregnant while sophomores at the high school last year told the Herald that the girls who made the pregnancy pact have no idea what’s ahead of them. “If I could go back in time, I would want to wait and have the same baby later. You can’t do stuff that normal teens do,” said Meaghan Orlando, now 17 and the mother of 3-month-old Jayden. “They don’t know what they’re getting themselves into.”
Orlando’s childhood friend and fellow new mom Alivia Fidler said the pact was “ridiculous.” Fidler — who, like Orlando, plans to return to school next year as a junior — warned the teens that their friendship won’t likely survive the multiple births. “They’re not going to be friends very long. You have to take care of your baby,” said Fidler, who has broken up with the baby’s father and lost her job at McDonald’s, according to the paper. “It’s frustrating. I don’t have a lot of support.”
At a time when the national teen pregnancy rate rose 3 percent in 2006 — the first increase in 15 years — Time suggested that the school may have done too good a job embracing its young mothers. Sex-ed classes at the school end freshman year, and teen parents are encouraged to take their children to the free on-site day-care center. “We’re proud to help the mothers stay in school,” said Sue Todd, CEO of the company that runs the in-school day care. The report described a scene where strollers sit seamlessly alongside cheerleaders and junior ROTC members in the hallways of Gloucester High.

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Mo’Nique, Yet Again

Mo’Nique 

The gastric bypass surgery rumors were just that…rumors.  On the Oprah Winfrey show today, Mo’Nique looked as big as ever.  She was there to promote a movie with Cedric the Entertainer and Martin Lawrence.

This will be good news for the fat acceptance blogger’s. They were going ballistic over the rumor.  They felt it was a personal insult, understandable since she promoted fat acceptance and hatred of thin women in her act…her whole act.

Mo’ nique and Oprah shared a moment as Mo’Nique described how inspired she had been by Oprah.   The moment was sublime. 

 

 

 

 

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Hillary….You Go Girl!

Hillary Clinton made a very graceful exit from the Presidential race today.

She could not have done it better.  Sublime

 

Peace out.

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