Navigating Charity: Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami

20 Mar

Give. Think. Pray.

It’s hard to watch, worse if you have loved ones in Japan. PopSmartsZen is urging you to donate money — not supplies (to date, no legit organization is set up to properly receive and distribute) — to a charity. Specify you want your donation earmarked for Japan.

It’s also hard to figure out how not to get scammed. I found a great site that vets charities, Charity Navigator. Check them out, read their research and give! Don’t forget the affected animals. Go Like ‘Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support’ (JEARS)’s Facebook page, see the Donate link.  — PopSmartsZen


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Clooney UnPoliticking “Truth”: I Drank the Bong Water

24 Feb

In my earlier bedhead, post-blog posting, Spam deleting, Aqua Aura-energized H20 drinking stupor, I was actually thinking about asking you this: How truthful are you? In our hyper-savvy age of over-stimulation and -information, strutting around like super models in, one can only hope, sustainable outer wear for Global Climate Change accessorized with evilly-designed planetary financial flip flops — do you really know who you are? And if you think you do, do you walk your talk? How can we expect today’s disaffected youth to have values that will sustain us in our old age (and assuming we leave them a planet to take up that hefty task on) with all the two-face smack talk we do individually, and in our media, our culture?

Hours later and still sans coffee, a full circle moment happened when I joy-read this lil diddy that George Clooney says no political career because of sex, drugs. It especially tickled PopSmarts’ pondering funny bone. Thank you, Dr. Doug Ross for that Rx of 2 Truths and the Morning After. Included among the reasons Clooney knows he wouldn’t make a good US political candidate are the facts that he — in his words to Newsweek magazine, “I didn’t live my life in the right way for politics, you know. I f– too many chicks and did too many drugs, and that’s the truth.”

Before today, truth be told, I always thought something — didn’t know what exactly — was wrong with that brilliant but rich aging player, yet do-gooder package. I wonder no more. He’s living his truths and that’s what is barely recognizable in our day and age. Oh. So we need to know ourselves, our truth in the two (at minimum) worlds we occupy in order to use our power for good. One of those paradoxes I tout so much, but in my own unnoticed growing jadedness, nearly couldn’t recognize. Oh.

Yes you of the political, actual human rights-affecting efforts. You slutty stoner you. You’re a funny truth teller I’d bring home to papa. — PopSmartsZen


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“Fat Girl” Outs Dumb Reporter In Front of HIS Back

24 Jan

UPDATE: Congrats to fair player Kim Clijsters, Australia Cup WINNER!

[Thank you to Reelgirl for reminding me (post long weekend) to put this shining example of a strong atheletic woman calling out a gossiper who slammed her body image.]

Australian Open tennis winner Kim Clijsters called out courtside interviewer and former tennis player Todd Woodbridge for texting that “she looks pregnant” and that “‘she looks really grumpy and her boobs are bigger.’” What pro reportage, Todd!

A girlfriend forwarded Clijsters the text (dispelling girl-on-girl cattiness) that Woodbridge sent her, and Kim took that aced serve and ran with it. SportsCenter and other sports media outlets have been looping that saucy video clip for a lipsmacking, satisfying good time now.

Chicas of the world, when a winning female athlete is basically called “fat” and “moody” by a so-called professional media person (and d’ya getta load of that the gossip aspect?, niiice!), this is just another example of the perfectionist body image lies perpetuated by us all, and blindly accepted by same. Open your eyes and mouth, see the truth and speak up for yourself.

Todd’s response, “Well that’s the end of my TV career. Thank you very much!” You’re welcome. — PopSmartsZen

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Saving Face: Funny Girl, Strange Mug, True Beauty

4 Jan

Sometimes even a road-tested, time-proven doyenne like Barbra Streisand can finally see her own beauty only in a rear view mirror. Despite whatever your may feel about Ms. Streisand’s visage, at age 68, the self-admitted insecure-about-her-looks star has finally come to see herself as “quite beautiful as a young woman.” The only critic’s voice that counts.

The star of “Funny Girl” warred with her own insecurities about her unconventional looks growing up (when blondes (and “blonde” obsession) not only ruled, but were The Rule, no matter how coloring mismatched and horrible it actually made them look) in a time when the standard of beauty was even narrower than today.

Babs told Britain’s OK! magazine, “Recently, doing DVDs, I’ve had to look at myself in old movies or on album covers… I thought, I really looked good there. Why didn’t I know that then?

“But I do have a strange face. It changes so much from angle to angle. Sometimes I think I really did look quite beautiful and a lot of times I looked really bad. It’s a shame. But I’m not going to cry over it. I’m trying to be in the moment, I’m enjoying my life.”

So if you feel like an outcast, too fat or flat, too short or tall, too 2-D or big nosed, wrong hair-textured, or…otherwise not neatly slipping inside the skinny bitch lines of today’s beauty standard, take heed in the wisdom of TIME and space exemplified by a successful, actually beau coup talented, real life Diva like Barbra Streisand. Don’t waste time!, realize now that you — in all your weird, gawky and terrible beauty — are today as beautiful as you ever were and were meant to be. Get over it to share it, flaunt it and take a saucy smelling bubble bath in it, darlin’. YOU ARE GORGEOUS. — PopSmartsZen

Thank you.

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Oops!, Chris Brown Did It Again

1 Jan

Former good boy Disney singer turned notorious girlfriend beater, Chris Brown, is still evolving — this time into a homophobic Twit. Even though he’s apologizing to former B2K star RazB, Brown’s growing pattern still shows signs of his (albeit successful yet) highjacked childhood’s lack of discipline and character-building boundaries. Not to mention airing his dirty homophobic, misogynistic, abusive psychology for all the world to see. Who’s your mama, again?? And why do you think young fans should pay to be influenced by you?

To get back at RazB’s comments condemning how badly he treated his ex- Rihanna, Brown slap-Tweeted RazB’s previous allegations of sexual assault during his time in B2K: “”Tell me this. … Why when the money was coming in u won’t complaining (sic) about getting bu**plugged!”

I don’t care how old he’s getting, Chris Brown’s growth trajectory shows he needs (and missed out on) a good spanking — if that’s too unPC for you, then an indefinite Time Out with expectations he grow up and start thinking of someone other than himself.

Support your own best values — stop funding Chris Brown’s allowance now.   — PopSmartsZen


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Sshhh! Women Overcoming Their Secret Garden

10 Dec

Secrets are only good on soap operas. In real life they can wreck relationships and cause mental anguish.

Smart and fierce globe-trotting journalist Lisa Ling had a secret. And it turned this confident and accomplished full-fledged woman’s world upside down. Ling had a miscarriage and wondered what she’d done wrong. She was sure she was alone on top of her secret guilt, this played havoc on her self-assuredness. When she found out how many of her friends and acquaintences suffered this same event silently and alone, Ling did something about it. She started a website called Secret Society of Women.

Is it any good? I don’t know because she publicized it on her old show, the very public ‘The View’, its servers were still freaking out when I logged in. Beyond the Home page, I could only get to About Us. PopSmarts can just imagine tantalizing page names like ‘Secrets’ and ‘Daily Wish’ and ‘Wisdom’ are jamming up traffic worse than on the 405 at rush hour.

Will you go to SSoW and confess all your deepest darkest secrets anonymously, find new compadres and find comfort — or do women like their secrets? If secrets aren’t healthy for your relationships or mental health, then why is our stereotypically caregiving gender especially good at harboring the darkest ones — and often for years and decades. Today’s secrets kept in, are good fodder for illness and disease tomorrow, y’know.

PopSmarts can’t endorse a site she’s not fully navigated, but she sure digs the idea of a world where fewer women are living lives of lies and often self-propagated shame. If you can’t manage to tell someone, and if the dark side of the web’s nature is kept at a minimum at this secrets-slaying site (e.g., possible abuse of intimacy by/and lies by the unstable or frustrated people with too much time on their mis-directed hands), and if this product of Lisa Ling’s authentic fabulosity rules, then — go tell your secrets to this new mountain and start living truthfully and in the light, people.   — PopSmartsZen

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Snooki Plays Hamster, Guidette Holiday Ball

9 Dec

10-9-8-7… it’s on! MTV is stuffing its most famous orange ‘Jersey Shore’ guidette and smurf Nicole “Snookie” Polizzi inside a giant countdown ball and dropping her like it’s hot in  New York’s Times Square on news years eve. Despite her teeny stature, that’s going to have to be one ginormous ball to house the famous Snookie bump. Tawk about helmat hah. I mock but you know I’ll watch, if only to see this cultural false idol levitate in plastic. David Blaine’s got nothing on you, Snooks, you stylin’ hamster. — PopSmartsZen

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