Coming up for the third time: Brad and Ange ... getting Brangelated. At last!

Or is it the fourth time? I've lost count! Seems like every 6 - 12 months the magazine covers are all reporting Brad and Ange married in secret, at ceremonies so private even their friends didn't know they'd done it. Uh...huh.

But this one could be real. This time around it's a wedding in the planning, and it's not the ordinary hitching. It's a Hindu wedding set to take place in Jodhpur, with their guru presiding.

Sounds great to me. I just have three hopes:

1) This is a true story and they actually are planning to do it;

2) They really go through with it when push comes to shove; and

3) The marriage lasts longer than the courtship.

Come on, kids, let's see you do it! And if you'd like to know more, the whole story broke in the Indian press earlier today am spilled over into the western press a few hours later. Here's a link -- http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/92223/20101215/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-marriage-jodhpur-siddha-yoag.htm -- and a quick tickle of Google will turn up a load of goodies on Siddha yoga, and "guru to the stars" Ram Lal Siya.

Oh, what the heck? Let's have some more pictures, while we're here. Don't you hate those blogs and sites where they dole out the news in bits you could inhale without even sneezing, and then give you one little picture for your time and trouble of gracing their pages? It's not as if there's a shortage of pictures for goshsakes! Here -- feast your eyes, and enjoy:

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Brangelina to the rescue!

Some of the nicest stories are posted by users, not reporters. Journalists do this crap--work for a living and they pretty soon get jaded and some of them can't tell where humor crosses the line and turns snide. So in pro journalism work you often get a lot of wannabe humor that goes over like the proverbial lead balloon ... way too sarcastic for its own good. But when a user of a public news site posts a story, you don't have that jaded quality. You get a real news item, from a person who was there, saw it, did it, and is keen to share.

And here's a beaut: Brad Pitt’s N.O. housing efforts have Lower 9th Ward in the pink. It's a great little piece about how Brad and Ange are building 100 houses in one of the most heavily punished parts of New Orleans. I mean -- seriously cool. "Nice factor:" 11 on the scale of 1-10.

Go there -- read it and have a smile.

And while we're on the subject of the heavenly duo, let's have some more reasons to smile right here:

Angelina locked Brad out --??!! Actually...

Angelina locked Brad out??!! What was she thinking?! Actually --

He locked himself out. Of the house, that it. Now, when you and I do this, we can always resort the the key hidden under the third geranium from the left, just behind the Japanese lamp, where the drainpipe's got that big rusty spot ... but then again, you and I don't live in Castle Brangelina, where the security makes Fort Knox look like Free Ticket Day at the Megaplex...


Here's the story: BRAD PITT Star locked out of own home, which popped up on Bild.com (in English, not German -- you're safe).

I'll tell you one thing: it's nice ... comforting, reassuring ... to know that Brad can still have the same kind of problems as mortals. I mean, memory lapses -- forget your remote control to get through the security system! (Razor wire, guard dogs, searchlights, electrified fences, robotized veloceraptors...) I feel a little bit better about being mortal now!

Got any Valentine's Day plans? Hollywood does!

Valentine's Day is almost upon us ... and for me it always turns into a massacre because my Significant Other and I always leave it to the last microsecond and wind up hunting around restaurants because we (!) forgot to make reservations!

Take a tip from AG and make SOME kind of plans with a few days to spare! Like these guys, who seem to have it all worked out:







Ah, for a little romancing ...! I need to remind my Significant Other that AG needs at least as much romancing as, say, the DVD recorder or the bike. Maybe more. In fact, I'm sure I need more.

A touch of leather ... Brangelina style

Somebody once said leather transcends fashion, leather is a fashion of its own. Whoever said that probably wasn't a vegetarian ... or a cow, come to think of it. Still, they weren't wrong:


The other thing about leather is, like a good pair of jeans it wears well, and the more beat up it gets, the more trendy it looks. Maybe it wouldn't take you to a five-star restaurant (neither will the jeans, for that matter) but "trendy" is ... trendy.

Nice one. Somebody else once noticed how good black looks on blonds. Or blondes. The difference is all in the 'e' ... makes a world of difference for such a little letter, right?

And speaking of blond -- does anybody else remember back this far into the vastness of time:

Ye gods, I remember it well. Come to think of it, it was a lot of fun, too. Haven't wantched the vampyre movie in far too long -- but I did watch Legends of the Fall the other night and it's till a great movie.

Who wants to be a soccer ball when they grow up?

You've heard of wanting to be a soccer player when you grow up, but ... who'd like to be this soccer ball?!

There's a story attacked to this picture. I'm NOT going to give you the link back to the page it came from because that page is very, very explicit and a few gentle readers might not be quite ready just yet for what'll slap you in the face when you get there (!) ...

But -- the story that goes along with this picture? As you may know, in order to meet with legal requirements, all pictures on website pictures are supposed to carry ALT tags in the code, which are translated by braille systems and text to voice readers, so that blind surfers can follow content. Good idea?

Great idea. However --

The ALT tag on this one (it pops up looking like a yellow sticky note when you hover over the pic; you know the ones) reads ... I kid you not ... "Angelina Jolie." True.

Jeepers, Ange, what've you done to yourself now?! And what the hell does Brad say about this?!

Gilded lilies: tattoos on hot celeb bods

There's absolutely no question about it: celebrities love their tattoos. It used to be that tatoos were a guy thing, but there's a lot more girls sporting them these days, and no one's more famous for them than that luscious other 50% of Brandeglina -- that is, the half that wears the slinky dresses and the stilleto heels ... just in case you were in any doubt as to which luscious 50% I was referring to. Could have been either half, right? But she's the 50% with the tatoos, at least right now. He could start in on them next Tuesday, since he seems to like 'em:









Next time I feel in the mood to look at tattoos, we'll have a look at Viggo Mortensen and Johnny Depp. But for now ... enough's enough. Let's get onto something else just as fascinating...