Pssst! Can you keep a secret? Halloween is in less than three days! Are you ready? Is your pumpkin all set to be carved? Have you got your candy? When I was a kid my friend’s dad did the most awesome pumpkins. They weren’t actually “carved” – more like etched. I remember him coming to the school and showing us how he did it and being in such awe. He really knew how to carve the pumpkin right, so he didn’t need a pumpkin template or anything. The rest of us, however, definitely need the help of pumpkin carving stencils patterns. Vampires may be what’s “hot”... 

They’re heeeere! No, not aliens silly – those have been roaming the streets forever. I’m talking about my Bridge School Benefit 2009 pictures. Like this one of me. Do you like my hair? I got it chopped last Friday. Now, before you get all huffy, I want to apologize for the poor-ish quality of some of the photos; please keep in mind that we were sitting wayyyy up high on the grass hill. The concert started as it does every year – with a Native American prayer and blessing, followed by Neil Young’s wife Pegi and her speech, and then Neil Young with a song or two. From... 

I was planning on doing a full post about the Bridge School Benefit concert I went to yesterday, but I haven’t gotten all the pictures yet because they have yet to be emailed to me. You see, I don’t have a digital camera. I know, hard to believe – but it’s true. I announced to my mother the other day that I want everyone in the family to pool their money this Christmas and buy me a good digital camera. I mean, really – shouldn’t a gossip blogger have a good camera? Anywhoo, since I probably won’t get to the Bridge School post tonight, here’s a bunch of gossip... 

Well it’s the week before Halloween, which can only mean one thing. Time for The Bridge School Benefit Concert. WooHoo! For those who don’t know, The Bridge School is the result of Pegi Young (Neil Young’s wife) and Jim Forderer joining forces with speech and language pathologist Dr. Marilyn Buzolich in 1985. They knew there was a severe need for a proper learning environment for children with special needs – they saw a hole, and they fixed it. They proposed a school dedicated to providing an environment where children with complex communication needs could learn, grow... 

We all know the story…Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner on the beloved sitcom Full House, dove face first into the Hollywood drug scene and had a real hard time getting out. But then she got clean and now everything is fine. Well, that’s not exactly how it really happened, apparently. In her new memoir, unSweetined, former child star Jodie Sweetin is finally coming clean about getting clean, and how she didn’t actually do it when we all thought she did. While we were going about our lives thinking Jodie was sober, she was pulling the wool over our eyes – partying... 

Call me crazy, but I think Saloon girls are really hot. Most likely because the thought of a woman in a breast-squeezing lace corset and stockings with a garter around her thigh makes me think of sex – dusty Old West poker playing cowboy sex; Jack Daniels swigging Ragtime piano loosy-goosy sex. I cannot possibly be the only one who reacts to Saloon girls in such a way, so don’t look at me like that. In fact, I know I’m not the only one because if I were, Saloon girl costumes wouldn’t be so dang popular. Nor would those fun Old West photos you get at county fairs. For... 

Halloween is 10 days away and as usual I have no idea what I’m going to do for the night, nor do I have a costume. If you’re in the same boat as I am, perhaps this will help. Personally, I want to find out what I’m doing before I decide on what to wear, but these Halloween costumes ideas for women have a least gotten my juices flowing. HalloweenMart picked this year’s Top Five Adult Halloween Costumes, and four of them can definitely be Halloween costumes for women. [source] 1. The Vampire – Vampires are SO in right now. You can really wear anything as long as your... 

She’s baaaaack! And this time Carrie Prejean may have to give back – her breasts, that is. The last time we heard from our little Christian princess was back in August when the beauty queen filed suit against Miss California USA officials Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, accusing them of religious discrimination. Well now the tables have turned – in a most delicious way. The production company that runs the Miss California USA pageant has filed a cross complaint against Carrie Prejean, demanding such things as the return of the $5,200 the pageant fronted Carrie so she could... 

I have a confession to make – before today the only thing I new about Alexander Skarsgard is that his last name is really fun to say, and that he plays Eric Northman, a 1,000-year-old Viking vampire from Sweden on HBO’s True Blood, which is now in its 2nd season. But now, thanks to my friend Kristin, I know all about Alexander Skarsgard and his fine Swedish self. This past weekend Alex Skarsgard won the coveted “Best Villian” award at the Spike TV 2009 Scream Awards, which will air Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 10:00 p.m. on Spike TV. Skarsgard was presented with the black... 

While Stephanie Pratt was getting busted for drunk driving, I was getting my ass beat at Scrabble – but I got to sleep on a bed in a real house, and not on a cot in the big house. As if being related to Spencer Pratt and having to appear on the totally scripted reality show The Hills on MTV wasn’t bad enough, Stephanie Pratt now gets to add DUI arrest to her resume. “It was your basic DUI. Our traffic officers driving down the street spotted her and pulled her over,” Sgt. Sal Ogaz tells PEOPLE. “She was cooperative and there were no issues with her arrest.” Police... 

On this day in 1989 the San Francisco Bay Area did a little rocking – and rolling; and a whole lot of quaking. I cannot believe it has been 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake. I don’t feel like it just happened yesterday or anything – I just can’t believe I’m actually that old! At 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989 the San Andreas Fault slipped, causing a 7.1 earthquake that lasted 10 to 15 seconds. Doesn’t seem like a very long time, but it was long enough to cause devastating damage. When all was said and done, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake killed 63 people... 

In the middle of writing my post last night about Lindsay Lohan having to appear in front of a judge about her probation, my internet went down. So a-noy-ing! It was still down this morning, but now it’s finally back. Oh how I missed it so. But I digress…..Lindsay Lohan appeared in court this morning, and was given an extension to her probation – apparently the judge doesn’t read gossip blogs and is therefore blind to Lindsay’s obvious alleged drug use. Guess the judge doesn’t look at celebrity photos online either, because if she did, she would have come... 

Welcome to the intersection of Avenue T and Van Sicklen in Brooklyn, NY. Just a few doors down is a teeny-tiny house – the smallest one in the borough, as a matter of fact. Located on a lot that used to be a driveway only 7.25 feet wide and 113.67 feet long, the unique house with one bedroom and one bathroom isn’t even 300 square feet. A shot from the living room, looking towards the front of the house….. And towards the back….. Here’s the kitchen. And yes, that’s a washer and dryer they were able to squeeze in….. The bedroom has a Murphy bed – obviously... 

In 1991, an 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off the street as her horrified step-father watched in disbelief. For 18 years she was held captive in a crap-hole tent compound in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in Antioch, CA. This past August the whole disturbing situation came to light after UC Berkeley campus police got the heebie-jeebies from Phillip Garrido. In the months since Jaycee Dugard’s rescue – and the subsequent discovery and rescue of her two children said to be fathered by Phillip Garrido – there has been an obvious curiosity surrounding... 

It’s finally officially official – after what seems like forever and a day, Heidi Klum has finally given birth to her latest genetically superior spawn with husband Seal – a little girl they named Lou Sulola Samuel. Rumors have been flying for days that the ex-supermodel had checked into the hospital to have her baby, but none of the stories were actually substantiated until now. Both mother and baby Lou Samuel are doing fine, according to reports. Klum, who petitioned recently to change her name to Heidi Samuel (Seal’s last name), has two sons Henry Gunther and Johan... 

So the other day I says to myself, I says, “I wonder what ever happened to Lorenzo Lamas?” I mean, we see his plastic mcnasty ex-wife Shauna Sand gallivanting around town in next to nothing and her infamous clear stripper heals all the time. But where is the tanned man with the wavy shoulder-length hair? He’s got a mustache and soul patch thing going now – sort of a Yanni-esque deal. Well you know, the funniest thing happened after I had the little Lorenzo Lamas where is he now conversation with myself. I got my answer – in the form of a new reality TV show on the... 

Ok, so I know I saw these art cars in Berkeley a few weekends ago – but whatever. I’m sharing them with you now so be happy. You’re welcome. Held on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley – near the UC Berkeley campus – the Berkeley Art Car Fest displayed most of the cars by parking them all in a row down a side street with a few stragglers on Telegraph itself. It was a really bright and sunny day which was great weather wise, but didn’t make for the best visual conditions where picture taking was concerned. As I moved down the line of cars clicking away I seriously had no... 

Well I warned you, and now it’s happened – the Duggar clan has officially added a generation. Image Source The eldest Duggar boy, Joshua, and his wife Anna welcomed a daughter into the world this week, naming her Mackynzie Renée Duggar. Mackynzie is the first child for Josh and Anna, as well as the first grandchild for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar – who themselves are expecting child number 19 next spring. Mackynzie was born at the home of her parents, Joshua and Anna, with a midwife and doula attending the birth. “Josh was excited to participate in the birth as... 

If you’re a big Survivor fan like I am, you will surely remember the 2003 season in the Amazon, when two of the female contestants took off their clothes during a challenge so they could have chocolate and peanut butter. Not just their shirts, either – they took off all of their clothes. One of the women was Jenna Morasca, who eventually won the season and is now madly in love with another former Survivor winner and current cancer fighter Ethan Zohn; and the other was Heidi Strobel. As a result of their naked shenanigans, Heidi and Jenna appeared on the cover and in the... 

Like most other cancers, breast cancer sees no gender lines; affecting both women and men. It’s true that women are about 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer, but men also have breast tissue that can be attacked by cancer. Breast cancer in men is most common among those ages 60 to 70. One such man is Peter Criss, the former drummer for the rock band KISS. The musician in now using his experience to pass the word on to other men, and urge them to check for lumps and get those lumps tested. “In ‘08, I was diagnosed with breast cancer… but (thanks to)...