@cinematheques: Why wouldn't he want a name that he can pronounce? That doesn't sound dickish to me. What does, however, is that his wife just had a baby and they haven't had "more than just two-three hours" together since then.
@bluebears: Yeah, seriously. A traditional name? Whose fucking tradition? And where is he? It seems really weird that a father would be anywhere but with his wife and newborn child at this point.
@apricotta: Yeah, and we have no clue what he means by "traditional." He might just be turned off by the celebrity baby name craze and want something, you know, normal.
God forbid he want a common name that he can pronounce! The injustice!
@msridiculous447: well his girlfriend is Argentinian so...pretty sure he was referring to that. I mean "Apple" is a ridiculous name but not exactly hard to pronounce.
@cinematheques: There are some Portuguese names, like Daniel, that could work in both languages, and others, like João, that just don't, so I could see wanting a name that could be made to work in either.
@cinematheques: Guys, guys, guys: to be fair to poor ol' Tom, at the other end of the link he specifies that he would be fine with the baby getting a Brazilian name, so long as he can pronounce it.
Anything's gotta be better than, what, Baby It? Precious Darling Boy-Child? Male Offspring?
@Jenna: And according to her family, their previous choice was Gabriel, which works in either language. I think by "traditional" he means he doesn't want his kid named Watermelon or Yonkers or whatever the trend is these days.
@fulanita: Right, plus not all Brazilian names are traditional. There are the weird hybrid names (Wilker, Gilmer) or the "American names" (Washington, Lincoln, Wellington), or the famous Greek names (Aristotle, Sophocles) that are popular(ish) in Brazil and I can totally see being opposed to.
@dialing_footnoterphone: @lizbang: Yes, it must be the eyebrows. Maybe she used to wear them with less of an arch and a little lighter in color? Off to look at old Madonna photos...
@slowpoke.r: There is more than a slight resemblance. (full disclosure: I flopped the picture of Kate Winslet l-to-r so her bangs fell the same way as the pic of Madonna)
If there's one thing I've learned from knowing three people who went on to kill themselves, it's that sometimes you just have no idea at all what's about to happen. Daul, from the little I knew of her via her blog, was a gifted young woman who'd have been awesome to know even if she wasn't a model.
In some ways, this hits me harder than Ruslana Korshunova's death last year precisely because Daul was a (fellow) blogger- in a way, it feels like we've lost one of our own.
And out of that sentiment, I do wish she'd be allowed some privacy in death- like maybe not having false facts and speculation about her relationship all over the media now. I don't know who it's supposed to help.
So sad to hear of Charis Wilson's passing. Ovation TV is airing "The Eloquent Nude" this week, which features Charis at 90, wonderfully frank and candid about her relationship with Edward. I highly recommend it. [ovationtv.com]
I'm not normally the sort of person who complains about this kind of thing, but what is the benefit of continuing to report on Daul Kim?
Her life deserves to be celebrated by her family and friends, but we can't help her, and there's nothing to be learned here that we didn't already know. Suicide is devastating, beautiful, intelligent people can still have problems, and we all fervently hope that those who need help will get it.
What else is there to say? Why must we always pick over the bones of tragedy like it will ward off the next one?
@Kajj: I think that discussing suicide helps de-stigmatize it. Mental illness is serious and widespread, and most people who are depressed do not get the help they need. Through discussing it this way, we can learn to better recognize the signs in our friends and loved ones. You may be well-informed on the issue of suicide, but many are not, and this sort of real-life-not-hypothetical situation helps shed light on the issue.
If the discussion inspires one person to correctly interpret the warning signs in others and prevent them from committing suicide/cutting/whatever, isn't it worth it?
@madeofawesome: I'm in favor of discussing suicide - I'm just not in favor of the prolonged examination of one unhappy person's private life after their death.
My best friend cut himself in high school. Looking at the Catherine McNeil article and the attached pictures is very painful for me, and while I'm no expert, those cuts do not look like the result of a skateboarding accident.
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God forbid he want a common name that he can pronounce! The injustice!
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I don't know, I just assumed he meant that he wanted a normal, non-celebrity name, and threw in "pronounceable" as a joke.
As in, "I don't care what we name the baby, so long as it isn't "Moses" or "Apple" and I can pronounce it."
I have no idea why I'm defending him...lol. As a lifelong Buffalo fan, he's a sworn enemy of my people.
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Anything's gotta be better than, what, Baby It? Precious Darling Boy-Child? Male Offspring?
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Or did they always look sort of alike and I never noticed before?
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In some ways, this hits me harder than Ruslana Korshunova's death last year precisely because Daul was a (fellow) blogger- in a way, it feels like we've lost one of our own.
And out of that sentiment, I do wish she'd be allowed some privacy in death- like maybe not having false facts and speculation about her relationship all over the media now. I don't know who it's supposed to help.
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i can only rarely find my size anywhere but online.
coincidence? i think not.
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[ovationtv.com]
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Her life deserves to be celebrated by her family and friends, but we can't help her, and there's nothing to be learned here that we didn't already know. Suicide is devastating, beautiful, intelligent people can still have problems, and we all fervently hope that those who need help will get it.
What else is there to say? Why must we always pick over the bones of tragedy like it will ward off the next one?
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If the discussion inspires one person to correctly interpret the warning signs in others and prevent them from committing suicide/cutting/whatever, isn't it worth it?
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