While I've enjoyed the close-knit community here and will be back to check on my favorites, UNCENSORED has sadly shut down. Rather, you may check out my new blog here: http://mylifesmalltown.blogspot.com/. This blog will have updates regarding my daughter Adelie Ashley Rose as well, but this blog is also based mainly on my personal journal. Life events from my journal are published on my blog at a weekly basis (sometimes). Updates of Adelie are posted whenever she does something cute.

Also, I'm planning to write things about the three towns I live closest to (and the one I live in): Hesperia, Apple Valley, and Victorville, California. It is my hope that people in these towns will use this blog for tips, tricks, advice, and reviews about nearby restaurants, stores, etc. I will be registering for the feeds of my favorite blogs here to keep in touch with those of you that first welcomed me to Musecrafters. Thank you, and good luck to you all.

Online rumormongers are sending stars to their premature demise at an alarming rate lately, turning two age-old human obsessions — death and fame — into their own ultramodern form of entertainment. Bieber and Lautner are the most recent victims, and their ''deaths'' came with elaborate scenarios perpetuated by message boards, YouTube video tributes, fake screen shots made to look like real news sources, and anonymous postings on legitimate hubs like CNN's iReport.com (which subsequently pulled the Bieber story). And in the past six months, at least a dozen celebrities have pretend-passed in fantastically fabricated stories, including George Clooney, Natalie Portman, Miley Cyrus, and Zach Braff, plus Jaclyn Smith, who suffered a particularly gruesome suicide rumor.

Honestly, what is wrong with fans that would want to write up a fictional tale of their famous star dying? And really, if some of these stars are so innocent (Justin Bieber was supposedly killed in an altercation at a night club) why are their fans believing stupid crap about them? Read the article to learn about poor Justin Bieber, 15 years old, meeting an early demise by visiting a night club in Chicago. The bouncer won't let him in so he pulls out a .25 caliber. Of course, a cop that just happens to be loitering around the night club manages to get a shot out first.

Now, I'm a fiction writer, and I know I've written some pretty unbelievable shit, but really? Would this 15-year-old celeb really visit a night club? Would he really just be carrying around a .25 caliber? And why the hell is a cop just hanging around the place? The story, honestly, doesn't make sense.

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35105354/ns/entertainment/?gt1=43001

Christmas is a time of laughter, joy, happy family times, Christmas lights, and all that fun stuff. Right? Add a little snow, some hot chocolate, and a kiss from your significant other under the mistletoe, and it could be seen as a really great Christmas. Yet as I log into MSN every day, I find that some of the articles listed for MSN Today (when that thing pops up is the only time I check any news) are actually quite depressing. One of the articles was six love talks to bring you closer in your romantic relationship. Sounds like a cute article, right? One we could all use during the stressful holiday season.

Unfortunately, this article was very, very sad. Written by a reporter named Amy Fletcher, she recorded the sad love story of Maya and Jack and the things that Maya wishes they had talked about sooner. Jack died from gallbladder cancer, I believe, on September 21, 2008. From what Maya told the reporter, they didn't start having these deep conversations regarding the six questions she lists until his last few weeks, and that I think is what makes this story so sad. Can you imagine going through a relationship with someone and realizing you didn't share any deep conversations until their last days? I can't imagine what Maya must feel like, but I know I'm going to follow her advice when she says to have these deep conversations with the one you love right away.

Link: Six Love Talks That Bring You Closer

So, I'm sure all of you have heard of the singer Miley Cyrus whether you want to or not. I'll allow my readers to have their own opinions of the girl, but I personally don't enjoy her voice, think her show is retarded, and think all the fans that follow her really need to get lives. Never in my life have I seen any one preteen idol have so much... commercial junk. She has her own board games, camera, clothing (including underwear), video games, poster, locker decorations, backpack, lunchbox, thermos, gummy snacks, and more that I'm not going to even bother listing because it would take far too long. Children are obsessing over this rockstar who somehow manages to keep two lives under control--both as Hannah Montana and as Miley Cyrus.

Recently, I just discovered that obsession really can go too far. Perhaps some of you are familiar with the site Twitter. If you like the status bars of Myspace and Facebook but don't have the time to visit both sites and update your status, you can always just use Twitter because all Twitter is is a status bar. Sites like Twitter, Myspace, and Facebook are starting to become popular even in the world of Hollywood. Miraculously, these rockstars, actors/actresses, and other famous people of our society have time somewhere to update Facebook, Myspace, and/or Twitter. I really think it's their assistants and not them.

Now, I'm sure many of you can guess where this is going. Miley Cyrus has--or at least had--a Twitter. I've included the link to her old Twitter page, which she removed. Evidently she got tired of it for some reason or another. I wouldn't know, I didn't look into her reasons for leaving Twitter. This is about obsession, not "why Miley Cyrus left Twitter." Evidently, some fans were rather ticked that Miley stopped using Twitter, however. After all, with being able to update your status from your mobile phone, fans could practically stop Miley Cyrus' every move if she updated frequently.

One such unhappy fan has gone to the extreme. They have a Twitter account under the name "mileysavefuzzy." If you scroll down to the bottom, you can see where this fan's obsession turned into freakish madness. Here is one of several odd Twitter posts from this account, this one being posted October 27th, this year: "Either way, if Miley doesn't come back, as sad as it may be, and with your comments in mind, Fuzzy will be gone in 20 (or 27) days." The best that can be deduced from this without knowing more is that if Miley Cyrus doesn't return to Twitter, something or someone named Fuzzy is going to be "gone." I'm sure we can all figure out that "gone" means "dead". In what seems to be their first Twitter post on October 24th this year, this person gives out a link to their "new project" leading to a website with the header "Will Miley Save Fuzzy?"

Follow the link I provided at the bottom of this entry, and you will find yourself transported to a site all about this obsessed fans desire to sacrifice their cat and eat it if Miley Cyrus doesn't return to Twitter. My sister actually told me about all of this just last night, and the first response that came to my mind was "What the hell??? You don't sacrifice your loving pet just because some dumb ass rockstar decides to leave a social networking site!" Pardon my French, but it irks me that people can be so obsessive to even make a site like this.

If you surf around on that site, you can see that supposedly Fuzzy is dead and was sadly euthenized and eaten by his loving master on November 23rd this year. There are photos as "proof" of Fuzzy's demise, but I can assure you the cat only appears to be napping and not at all dead. There is also a link on this page to Miley's numerous comments regarding the impending doom of Fuzzy; there are four videos. My ears were painfully tormented by these videos because my sister watched them last night I believe in order to discover what the hell "Miley Save Fuzzy" is all about.

To sum it all up, I don't believe that Fuzzy is actually dead. In fact, I think he may actually be enjoying the warm sunshine of this Wednesday morning, where ever he may live. However, if poor Fuzzy was indeed murdered and eaten by the one person he loved, trusted, and adored... It's a lesson to us all not to let our obsession drive us to madness.

What sorrow it is that a cat had to be butchered because some idiot fan craved Miley Cyrus's Twitter updates like a sex addict craves porn....

Mileysavefuzzy, you are a fool.

Links

Miley's Twitter Page
Miley Save Fuzzy's Twitter Page
Will Miley Save Fuzzy?

America likes to pride itself on its caring attitude. It's even written on the tablet that Lady Liberty holds on Ellis Island:

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

America longs to help those struggling with poverty and freedom, and yet time and again, we have shown just how little we care about these people we long to help. I logged into MSN Messenger this afternoon as I have some time between classes, and ocassionally, a friend of mine will be on. While none of my friends were on, MSN Today had an interesting headline that immediately caught my attention. Granted, the photo they included on Today was not all that impressive, but the headline beneath it astonished me: "Missing Teen Found--Spent 11 days in NYC subways."

Missing children has become something I look for in the news recently perhaps because of my impending motherhood. So, I figured I'd check out the article and celebrate the return on this boy to his family. What I ended up reading was not about the joyful return of a boy that had run away from home or been kidnapped. Rather, the entire article focused on the fact that this child that police oh-so-carefully searched for went unnoticed for 11 days under their very noses--and their feet.

In spite of surveilance cameras in the subway stations and photos of this boy posted all over, no one noticed him. This 13-year-old boy suffers from Asperger's syndrome and had fled to the subways when released from school after getting in trouble at school and fearing punishment. Asperger's syndrome is a form of autism that allows the person to be high functioning but can ocassionally manifest itself in specific ways. This boy had problems with situations that require a verbal or social response.

After the mother informed the police of her missing child, they contacted the school and leafleted the city. However, no one assumed to follow the procedure of possible runaway cases by checking train and subway stations. I watch a lot of Law & Order: SVU, and I know that when a child disappears, every situation is considered including runaway. Especially if the child has a disease that might cause social awkwardness like this child and is a teenager.

How, then, could a 13-year-old boy go unnoticed in a society that prides itself on longing to care for others? The mother may be here illegally--and I honestly don't agree that illegal immigrants should receive the same benefits as citizens and visa holders--but there are laws that say this child's case should have been given the same amount of priority as a citizen's missing child. Why is it that the police left so many holes then? Who was checking the surveilance cameras of the subway stations that his red hoodie went unnoticed (the article states the missing boy was wearing his red hoodie the day of his disappearance)? Why did police not follow procedure and check the subway stations? How is it that only one person saw the boy's photo then went up to the child and asked if he was the missing boy?

It's time to rethink our society. Are we truly as caring as we claim to be?

Link to the article: NYC boy missing for 11 days lived in subways