i take back every single thing i've ever said about pete and ashlee being rational human beings. i'm sure their kid's gonna be adorable, but his name is bronx mowgli wentz.

julie says, "i'm gonna go write my paper and try to pretend that he didn't just name his kid bronx."

am i the only one that's stuck on mowgli? i get the sentimental value, but -- well, at least he left us a clue. pete's latest blogspot post was fondly titled, "junglebook." maybe we should have known.

still: parents. ♥

okay. i know that less than half of you care, but INTOUCH IS REPORTING THAT ASHLEE SIMPSON IS IN LABOUR.



i love her. legit, she makes me smile so much. honestly, i think she seems like a fantastic human being from the very little we get from the media. i am ridiculously fond of a) her, b) her music, c) the way she presents herself in public, d) her husband, and e) pretty much anything she does. needless to say, i wish her and pete and the baby all of the best health.

in summation of all of my flailing toward everyone ever: SHE'S GOING TO BE A MOM, OKAY???

have some videos, because i'm all about ashlee tonight:

invisible (this is my current favourite).
little miss obsessive live on ellen.
ashlee in chicago, the musical; she performed as roxie hart in the west end in london -- these are clips of performances and interviews.
autobiography; VINTAGE ASHLEE. god, i love it.

EDIT: BUZZNET IS NOW REPORTING AS WELL.

isobamapresident.com.







i am so proud to be an american. and it's not even because, "after eight years of hell," we needed this. this is what it should have been all along. this is what i knew we were capable of, and i don't know why it took us so long to get here.

he's not a saviour, but this is a step in the right direction. something's starting.

from fivethirtyeight.com:



Barack Obama wins Ohio. All call. We aren't "calling" the overall race yet, but that's ballgame, folks. He will be the next president of the United States.

Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.

The roar goes up in Grant Park. They know.



this is it. yes, we can. three ringing words.

"And so, tomorrow, as we take the campaign south and west, as we learn that the struggles of the textile workers in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas, that the hopes of the little girl who goes to the crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of L.A., we will remember that there is something happening in America, that we are not as divided as our politics suggest, that we are one people, we are one nation.

And, together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story, with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:

Yes, we can."