So far this week there has been a lot of exciting celebrity and pseudo-celebrity news. A female astronaut planned to kidnap and kill a fellow astronaut over the affections of a third. (Yet, strangely enough every single account of her story worked the fact that this deluded woman drove from her home in Texas to Florida wearing a diaper so she wouldn't have to stop to pee. Seriously, it was in the first sentence of some of the accounts. Like that proves she was crazy or something! To me, it just shows her determination.) In another "crazy Texan" story--the governor of Texas is trying to pass legislation that all 6th grade girls need to have the HPV shot. Needless to say, he is getting some flak for that. (Also, now that I have managed to call Texans crazy, I know that my friend with the Texan girlfriend will NEVER give her the link to my blog. However, if she actually had a chance to read my blog she might see that I insult EQUALLY and FAIRLY. I'm not saying that all Texans are crazy, just that the precedent has been set this past week so we should all be on the lookout.) Also, Anna Nicole Smith died. I think it was from the shock that her 15 minutes of fame lasted as long as it did.

The biggest news for me, however, was that the last Harry Potter book is coming out in July. This tremendous news was closely followed by naked pictures of Daniel Radcliffe (the actor who plays Harry in the movies) on the Internet. Turns out he is kicking the "child star" moniker by appearing in the stage play "Equus" in which he has a ten minute nude scene. Yep, he's totally naked on stage for ten minutes. He plays a stable hand (hence the horse in the photo above) who blinds a bunch of horses with a metal spike. I don't think he does this while he's naked, but...kidding. There's a love scene of some sort which I hope doesn't involve a horse, but that would be a hell of a way to shed that Harry Potter albatross, wouldn't it?? Now, I searched all over the Internet for a naked picture of Daniel Radcliffe, but couldn't find one to save my life. And I REALLY looked. (in the interest of this post, of course)

Now there is talk about this production coming to the States (it's only in London now). I figure if this happens it will definitely come to Chicago and I am SOOOOO going. I know it sounds weird that I would want to go see some 17 year old actor naked in a play, but the nudity is really beside the point. I just want to see Daniel Radcliffe act in something that doesn't involve a wand. (Go ahead and fill in the punch line here. I set it up for you.) Honestly, who really wants to see any man completely naked? The male body isn't that gorgeous naked. I would rather see a man just shirtless than all the way nude. Ask my husband about this...he'll vouch for me. (Ha!)

This leads me to the last interesting news story this week. Did you see the Super Bowl? Well, Prince did his half-time thing and when he had his guitar shaped like his stupid symbol and they put up the big white sheet with his shadow projected on it some people thought that in silhouette, the guitar looked phallic. My husband actually commented on this while we were watching the Super Bowl and I thought he was the only one who would think that. (Well, maybe all the 12 year old boys would too) Anyway, I guess NBC or ABC or whoever broad casted the stupid game has received some complaints.

All I know is, I would rather look at Prince's pretend penis than Janet Jackson's real nipple.