I stopped following Rose McGowan when she tweeted about how horrible red light cameras are and she needed a way to hide her license plate from them. Because running red lights is so cool? #kirstiealleytwitter
@Ms Meghan: I should really find the study, but I've heard that the red light cameras cause more accidents than preventing them and are really about the money. Not entirely sure it's true, but makes sense to me. #kirstiealleytwitter
@cailizma: Fair enough, but the cameras take your picture when you run red lights, which means you are trying to avoid the camera because you are running red lights. #kirstiealleytwitter
@cailizma: Ditto on the "really should find the study," but I think the results were that the cameras caused more accidents, but less deaths. There were more fender-benders as people hit the brakes trying to avoid running the lights, but less t-bone collisions where cars running the lights got hit from the side. I guess getting hit from the side by an accelerating car is more deadly than getting hit from the back by a slowing car. Anyway, they're probably still mostly for money. #kirstiealleytwitter
I'm impressed Demi was driving a 5 y/o car. Not that that's really old, but in my mind stars throw away their Bentleys at the end of the week because they have fingerprints on the door handles. #kirstiealleytwitter
@efine: Meh, I'm not sure it negates the positive impact. It's not like they're going to put the old one in the middle of Yellowstone to rot. They'll probably sell it or one of the kids will drive it, so it will still be replacing a full-fuel (is that the term for not hybrid? purebred?) car in some way. Getting a new one every year is egregious, but every five years isn't so bad. #kirstiealleytwitter
I always love how totally unsexy Heidi Klum's Halloween costumes are. She's like the opposite of everybody - she's sexy all the rest of the year, so this is her chance to be totally unsexy.
Jezzies living in countries other than the US, Canada, and Great Britain - is Halloween not a big deal where you live? I was reading a crafting website and there were so many comments to the effect of "I wish I lived in the US so I could do something like this!"
And Gene Simmons, lame. You can't be what you are. That's like doctors who "dress up" as doctors.
@vulcanized: I taught English in a rural village in Japan for two years and during Halloween time, I would dress up to school and teach Halloween lessons, which I think everyone got a kick out of it. One year, in one of my elementary schools, all the students and teachers dressed up and the students trick or treated from classroom to classroom, which was ADORABLE. I also taught some of my students how to make Jack O'Lanterns (Japanese pumpkins, by the way, really difficult to carve). However, if the person in my position wasn't really into Halloween, they wouldn't have celebrated it at all, other than a lesson in the English text book about Jack O'Lanterns. I think in cities where there are big expat communities, such as Tokyo, there might be more serious Halloween celebrations.
And you kinda make me feel bad because I'm an amateur belly dancer and I dressed up as a belly dancer yesterday. I guess when I go professional, I won't dress up as a belly dancer on Halloween anymore, but it was really fun to pretend I was the real thing for one night. #gallery
@Sputnik_Sweetheart: No, you go on with your bad Halloween belly dancing self. I just feel like that outfit is basically Gene Simmons's uniform (I mean, how long was KISS around before we even knew what he actually looked like?), so it isn't really "dressing up". That outfit is basically his identity - he's dressed up as himself. It would be like John Roberts putting on his robe and telling people he's dressed up as a Supreme Court justice. I think the fun of Halloween is being something you're actually not. #gallery
@vulcanized: well, to be fair to Gene Simmons, that pic was taken when he was performing at VooDoo Fest in New Orleans. He's probably contractually obligated to show up in the makeup... #gallery
Half an hour ago I was watching "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" which is quite depressing. Seeing good ol' Brad dressed as eveybody's (ie my kids') favorite DJ Lance Bass while I'm still kind of in my Benjamin Button induced funk is some kind of mind freak. AND THE BEST THING EVER.
Also WHAT IS HE DRINKING? I need to know! It looks like either milk or some kind of Bailey's mixed drink... #gallery
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Jezzies living in countries other than the US, Canada, and Great Britain - is Halloween not a big deal where you live? I was reading a crafting website and there were so many comments to the effect of "I wish I lived in the US so I could do something like this!"
And Gene Simmons, lame. You can't be what you are. That's like doctors who "dress up" as doctors.
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And you kinda make me feel bad because I'm an amateur belly dancer and I dressed up as a belly dancer yesterday. I guess when I go professional, I won't dress up as a belly dancer on Halloween anymore, but it was really fun to pretend I was the real thing for one night. #gallery
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Also WHAT IS HE DRINKING? I need to know! It looks like either milk or some kind of Bailey's mixed drink... #gallery
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And Brad Pitt-- I love you. Seriously. It is a love that will never die. #gallery